成人快手

Powerful drama based on the true story of the Catholic Church's kidnap of a young Jewish boy.

Italy, 1858. Following Pope Pius IX鈥檚 orders, soldiers burst into the Mortara family鈥檚 Bologna home to forcibly remove their six-year-old son, Edgardo. They have heard from the Jewish family鈥檚 maid that she had secretly baptised him as a sickly infant for fear that he would die a Jew and his soul would remain in limbo. Under the Church鈥檚 doctrine, the boy is no longer permitted to live with his non-Catholic family and is taken to be raised by the Church itself.

The distraught Mortara family try desperately to get Edgardo back, and the scandal soon makes its way across the country and Europe at large. As they embark on an international campaign to have their son returned, they find themselves at the epicentre of a wider historical battle between the forces of Catholic authoritarianism and the political awakening taking place across Italy and throughout Europe.

In Italian with English subtitles