La scuola cattolica by Stefano Mordini

Stefano Mordini’s La scuola cattolica is based on the monumental novel by Edoardo Albinati. Mordini is back in Venice after last year’s closing movie Lasciami andare.

1294 pages about a tragic story that upset Italy in the mid-Seventies, the “murder of Circeo”. Angelo Izzo, Gianni Guido and Andrea Ghira during the night between 29 and 30 September 1975 raped and slaughtered Rosaria Lopez and Donatella Colasanti. The latter survived pretending to be dead. The three were schoolmates of Albinati and they all came from a posh Roman male private school, San Leone Magno. The catholic school of the Roman high society, the boys from good families that filled the first pages of the newspapers.

«This film depicts the environment in which germinated the warped seed that was to produce one of the darkest episodes in Italy’s post-war history: the Circeo massacre,» says Stefano Mordini who wrote the script with Luca Infascelli and Massimo Gaudioso condensing almost 2000 pages of memories, thoughts and chronicles. «The young men who are the protagonists of this story have all received the same education. They are privileged, and their dark side takes shape in the recesses of a normal, upper-middle-class life. Always behind the backs of parents who remained oblivious of everything, even of the hatred that their sons harboured for them».

Parents are the main target of this movie, because family is the institution that is the most important part of the storytelling of La scuola cattolica that is supported by a great cast composed by Benedetta PorcaroliGiulio PrannoFabrizio GifuniValentina CerviValeria GolinoRiccardo Scamarcio e Jasmine Trinca.

La scuola cattolica

Italy, 2021. Directed by Stefano Mordini. with Benedetta Porcaroli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni. Lenght 106’ Distribuzione Warner Bros. Italia

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