Teatini Cinema/ Rapito

Won six Silver Ribbons "Rapito," Marco Bellocchio's 130-minute historical drama, screened in the Chiostro dei Teatini in Italian with English subtitles, for the signed DB d'Essai review. A.D. 1858, Jewish quarter of Bologna, soldiers of the "Papa Re" break into the Mortara family home to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. According to the statements of a maid, the child was secretly baptized at six months old. According to canon law he can only receive a Catholic education from the Church. Edgardo's parents, Momolo and Marianna, desperately do everything to get their son back, but papal law is unappealable. Supported by public opinion, the Mortara battle soon takes on an international political dimension. But Pius IX does not fear the Jewish community, the liberal press or even Napoleon III, despite the fact that the Church's temporal power is drawing to a close and the Savoy troops are about to conquer Rome.

Tickets: 3.50 euros

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