Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Amblin Entertainment
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
DirectorSteven Spielberg
WriterTony Kushner
Plot
The story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
