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.
Enea Sala
as Edgardo Mortara (child)
Leonardo Maltese
as Edgardo Mortara
Paolo Pierobon
as Pio IX
Fausto Russo Alesi
as Momolo Mortara
Barbara Ronchi
as Marianna Mortara
Andrea Gherpelli
as Angelo Padovani
Samuele Teneggi
as Riccardo Mortara
Corrado Invernizzi
as Giudice Carboni
Filippo Timi
as Giacomo Antonelli
Fabrizio Gifuni
as Pier Gaetano Feletti
Paolo Calabresi
as Sabatino Scazzocchio
Aurora Camatti
as Anna Morisi
