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Kidnapped (Rapito)

Kidnapped (Rapito)

original title:

Rapito

directed by:

Marco Bellocchio

cast:

Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Enea Sala, Barbara Ronchi, Filippo Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Andrea Gherpelli, Samuele Teneggi, Corrado Invernizzi, Paolo Calabresi, Leonardo Maltese, Federica Fracassi, Bruno Cariello, Giustiniano Alpi

screenplay:

Marco Bellocchio, Susanna Nicchiarelli, from the book "Il caso Mortara" by Daniele Scalise

cinematography:

Francesco di Giacomo

editing:

Francesca Calvelli, Stefano Mariotti

set design:

Andrea Castorina

costume design:

Sergio Ballo, Daria Calvelli

music:

Fabio Massimo Capogrosso

producer:

Beppe Caschetto, Simone Gattoni

production:

IBC Movie, Kavac, Ad Vitam, Match Factory Productions, Rai Cinema, Arte, supported by Ministero della Cultura, Canal +, Cine’ +, Film-und Medienstiftung NRW with the support of Région Ile-de-France, Emilia-Romagna Film Commission

distribution:

01 Distribution [Italy], Mcf Megacom Film [Albania], Zeta Films [Argentina], Palace Films [Australia], Pandora Film Medien [Austria], Cherry Pickers [Belgium], Cine Video y TV [Bolivia], Mcf Megacom Film [Bosnia and Herzegovina], Providence Filmes - Pandora [Brazil], Art Fest [Bulgaria], Cohen Media Group [Canada], Zeta Films [Chile], Cine Video y TV [Colombia], Cine Video y TV [Costa Rica], Mcf Megacom Film [Croatia], Cine Video y TV [Cuba], Aerofilms [Czech Republic], Cine Video y TV [Dominican Republic], Cine Video y TV [Ecuador], Cine Video y TV [El Salvador], Kino Pavasaris [Estonia], Pandora Film Medien [Germany], Odeon - Rosebud.21 [Greece], Cine Video y TV [Guatemala], Cine Video y TV [Honduras], Vertigo Media [Hungary], Falcon Pictures [Indonesia], Curzon Film [Ireland], United King Films [Israel], Fine Films [Japan], Kino Pavasaris [Latvia], Kino Pavasaris [Lithuania], Cine Video y TV [Mexico], Mcf Megacom Film [Montenegro], Cherry Pickers [Netherlands], Palace Films [New Zealand], Cine Video y TV [Nicaragua], Mcf Megacom Film [North Macedonia], Zeta Films [Paraguay], Cine Video y TV [Peru], Best Film [Poland], Alambique [Portugal], Cine Video y TV [Portugal], Cine Video y TV [Puerto Rico], Mcf Megacom Film [Serbia], Aerofilms [Slovakia], Mcf Megacom Film [Slovenia], Cine Video y TV [Spain], Vertigo Films [Spain], Agora Films [Switzerland], Light Year Images [Taiwan], Filmarti [Turkey], Arthouse Traffic [Ukraine], Curzon Film [United Kingdom], Cohen Media Group [United States], Zeta Films [Uruguay], Cine Video y TV [Venezuela], Netflix [Worldwide]

world sales:

The Match Factory [Germany]

country:

Italy/France/Germany

year:

2023

film run:

125'

format:

colour

release date:

25/05/2023

festivals & awards:

In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo's parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras' struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…