Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Starring Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Paolo Pierobon, Filip Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese., the child is Edgardo Mortara, six years old and the sixth son of Salomone and Marianna Mortara in the city of Bologna. The nation was the Papal States, the band of Central Italy under direct political control of the Papacy. In historical melodrama
), director Marco Bellocchio recounts how the fate of one young boy rewrote the political direction of Europe. The Mortara case may be almost unknown to American audiences and may be little more than a footnote in history texts for most European audiences. Yet it’s arguably as important for 19th century geopolitics as the Dreyfus Affair or Dred Scott, a singular legal struggle that proved to be a turning point. It’s almost absurd: in 1858, police dragged Edgardo from his bed, claiming that he had been secretly baptized and that therefore he could not be raised by his Jewish family.
It’s no surprise to see veteran director Bellocchio take on a forgotten corner of Italian legal and political history. He tackled similar territory in 2010’s and a decade later in Cosa Nostra courtroom drama.
Meanwhile, the grand politics of the affair are carried in a seething performance by Paolo Pierobon as Pope Pius IX. It’s rare to see a dramatic depiction of Vatican City’s number one resident as anything other than a deus ex machina for the story or as the subject of an unctuous hagiography. Instead, Pierobon may have conjured up the most complicated depiction of a pope since Rex Harrison as Julius II in.
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