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[Machine Translation] Winner of seven Nastro D'Argento Awards in 2023 and five David di Donatello Awards in 2024, the film is an adaptation of "The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara," which Steven Spielberg had abandoned for film. The kidnapping of a Jewish boy by the Catholic Church. The film is a historical tale of the kidnapping of a Jewish boy by the Catholic Church, which caused one of the biggest ripples in Italian history and swept film festivals around the world. Paolo Pierrobon, who won the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as Pope Pius IX, who holds the key to the case. Fausto Russo Allegri, a regular in Bellocchio's films such as "Siciliano: The Beauty of Betrayal," plays Momolo, the father who is struggling to save his son. The mother, Marianna, is played by Barbara Ronchi, who won the 2023 Nastro D'Argento Award for Best Actress for her role in this film. The film features a cast of Italy's most talented actors. The role of Edgardo as a boy is played by Enea Sala, a rising star who won an audition of approximately 2,000 people to make her first film appearance and acting debut. The role of Edgardo as a young man is played by Leonardo Maltese, who won the New Talent Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022 for his film debut "The King of Ants. The film is co-written by Susanna Niccarelli, who won the Nastro D'Argento Award for Best Screenplay in 2023 and the David di Donatello Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024 for this film. The film was produced by Beppe Cascetto of Martin Eden and Siciliano: The Beauty of Betrayal. --In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, soldiers sent by the Pope break into the Mortara family. They have come to take away their seven-year-old son, Edgardo, by order of the Cardinal. Distraught, Edgardo's parents do everything in their power to get their son back. Backed by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortara couple's struggle quickly takes on a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope, in order to consolidate their increasingly shaky power, refuse to agree to Edgardo's return....

Original Release Year: 2023

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Paolo Pierobon
Fausto Russo Alesi
Barbara Ronchi
Marco Bellocchio

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