A pope’s ransom

Power and submission: Pius IX (Paolo Pierobon) calls young Edgardo (Enea Sala) ‘son’
PHOTOS: ANNA CAMERLINGO

He was a six-year-old Jewish boy who was seized by papal soldiers and taken to be raised Catholic. Isabelle Grey asks the director of a new film why he has chosen to focus on this extraordinary true story.

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