Secret Passage

Secret Passage
Directed by Ademir Kenović
Written by Ademir Kenović
Starring John Turturro
Katherine Borowitz
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Tara Fitzgerald
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography Vilko Filač
Edited by Robin Sales
Release dates
  • 2004 (2004)
Country Italy, Portugal, Luxembourg
Language English
Budget $16,000,000 (estimated)

Secret Passage is a 2004 film directed and written by Ademir Kenovic.[1] The film stars John Turturro, 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 Spain. Jews are being chased everywhere. They have two choices: either to convert or to face trial and execution. Isabel (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 Paulo 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

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