Secret Passage

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Secret Passage
Directed byAdemir Kenović
Written byAdemir Kenović
Olivier Bonas
StarringJohn Turturro
Katherine Borowitz
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Tara Fitzgerald
CinematographyVilko Filač
Edited byRobin Sales
Music byStephen Warbeck
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
CountriesItaly, Portugal, Luxembourg
LanguageEnglish

Secret Passage is a 2004 film directed by

Katherine Borowitz, Tara Fitzgerald, and Hannah Taylor-Gordon. In the United Kingdom
, the film is mostly known as The Lion's Mouth.

Plot

The film starts in 1492, in

Katherine Borowitz), and Clara (Tara Fitzgerald) are growing up with terror. Although forcibly baptized, the sisters are chased through Christendom until they arrive in Venice. In Venice, Isabel organizes a secret passage in order to give refuge to the refugees who were fleeing away in the fear of the Inquisition. Isabel decides that, in order to be safe, her family must flee to Istanbul, the only place where Jews are not hated. But Clara refuses to leave, because she is in love with a Venetian named Paolo Zane (John Turturro). When Isabel somewhat tries to force Clara to move to Istanbul, Clara gets furious at the former and is almost ready to break all family ties with Isabel. In these battles of misunderstandings, Clara's young daughter Victoria (Hannah Taylor-Gordon
) is trapped, who finds that she is about to be married into the same faith that murdered her own father.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Secret Passage (2004)". Archived from the original on September 27, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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