2nd
Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
Curated by David
Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
KIDNAPPED
Friday, May 3rd at 7 PM
& Sunday, May 5th at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The great Italian filmmaker Marco
Bellocchio, now 84, has made one of the most stylish and operatic films of
his career. Kidnapped depicts the scandalous true story of Edgardo
Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy who, in 1858, was baptized by his caretaker,
and abducted from his family by order of the Pope, to be raised as a Catholic.
Edgardo became the center of an international firestorm as his parents fought
to retrieve their child from the clutches of a ruthless theocratic government;
the case led to historical change. (Italy,
France, Germany, 2023, 134 mins, Italian, Hebrew, Latin | Dir. Marco Bellocchio)
For the full festival schedule, click here.
