A dark story, told in a dark and melancholy manner: Marco Bellocchio’s historical drama, bathed in predominantly night-time colors and called simply “Rapito” (“Kidnapped”) in Italian, with the setting of Bologna in German, takes up one of the great scandals of the 19th century .century. On June 24, 1858, at the behest of the Inquisition, the police of the Papal States took the almost seven-year-old boy Edgardo Mortara away from his Jewish parents and took him to a convict, where he was raised to be a Catholic priest.
“The Bologna Kidnapping” in the cinema: His will be done – Culture
