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.
I went in thinking it would be boring. Well, it wasn't: despite some cheap cgi shots, the film is actually captivating throughout the whole story. Also, it's anticlerical; I'm done Your Honor.
