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Quick Info

Rating

7.3/10

Release2023

Runtime2h 14m

StatusReleased

Budget$14,100,000

Revenue$4,123,091

Production

The Match Factory

IBC MOvie

Kavac Film

RAI Cinema

Ad Vitam Production

BR

ARTE France Cinéma

Movie

Kidnapped

2023

2h 14m

7.3

Drama

History

Synopsis

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

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