MANGAWHAI MOVIES
7PM | KIDNAPPED
Sat, 05 Oct
|Mangawhai Movies
2023 | Drama/History | 2h 15m | M
Time & Location
05 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 06 Oct 2024, 9:15 am
Mangawhai Movies, 181 Molesworth Drive, Mangawhai, New Zealand
About the event
2023 | Drama/History | 2h 15m | M
In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo's parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras' struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child