Reason for Living
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly take…
Reason for Living
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification. —TMDB
Reason for Living
Drama
Film Details
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents' struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
—TMDB.