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As with “The Traitor,” another overview of a changing world, Marco Bellocchio's political sympathies are not hidden, but the dilemmas and perplexities his characters face can often be oversimplified. Here in “Kidnapped”, he recounts a shameful episode in the last days of papal secular power before the unification of the Italian State, in which the authorities (they of the “Holy Office) ordain a 6-year-old Jewish boy” from infamy. of the Inquisition) to be torn from the arms of his parents because of an alleged furtive and illicit baptism performed when he was a child, turning him into a Christian who, for the protection of his immortal soul, could no longer be raised in a Jewish family . He is taken to Rome, to be raised in an institution for converted boys destined for the priesthood, while his case becomes an international scandal, exploited by anticlerical circles throughout Europe and beyond, to the immense irritation of the Pope and the Curia. . The notion of dogma is central ...