The true story behind the events of ‘The Catholic School’, a film recently released on Netflix

The Netflix streaming platform has just added to its catalog the film that shocked Italy by portraying one of the saddest cases of its most recent history. is approx “The Catholic School”film by Stefano Mordini and free adaptation of the novel of the same name by Edoardo Albinatiand that portrays the so-called Circeo Massacre.

“The Catholic School” premiered in the streaming catalog of Netflix September 14, with a production that places the plot in 1975 and the story of three young students, a terrible crime and other details that we tell you.

What are the facts described in ‘The Catholic School’?

Gianni Guido (Francesco Cavallo), Angelo Izzo (Luca Vergona) and Andrea Ghira (Giulio Pranno) were three twenty-year-olds from wealthy families in Rome in 1975, despite their apparent innocence, the boys have fascist sympathiesthey are violent armed robberies.

Of the three Angelo Izzo is the most violent, with a conviction for rape behind him. In September of the same year Guido and Izzo meet, through a friend, Donatella Colasanti (played in the film by Benedetta Porcaroli) and Rosaria López (Federica Torchetti), two 18-year-olds from a working-class neighborhood.

the two boys they court and seduce the two girls, to the point that they decide to meet again a few days later, inviting them to spend the day in a villa by the sea in Anzio. Such a proposal turns out to be a trap, the two young women are taken to San Feliceo Circeo and there they suffer all kinds of violence.

After this event, nothing will be the same again. Italian history. The events took place between 29 and 30 September 1975, in San Felice Circeo, on the Lazio coast, just over 100 kilometers from Rome. Both girls were tortured, beaten and raped for 30 hours straight. One of them died, the other was saved by pretending to be dead.

The story begins on a Saturday afternoon, when the two girls meet Gianni Guido and Angelo Izzo, who attend the San Leone Magno private high school in the Trieste neighborhood. Soon they start dating them, meeting occasionally at the Mushroom of Eur.

There they meet the young neo-fascists, so they both define themselves even though they are not politically committed. Even in the film one of the two even says so The most important man in history is Hitler.

On September 28, Izzo and Guido invite the two girls to a party, but in reality they end up taking them to a villa in San Felice Circeo, Villa Moresca, owned by the family of the third, Andrea Ghira, the son of a well-known Roman businessman.

This is where the tragic accident occurs, in which one of the girls ends up tragically killed and the other has no choice but to fake her death; only to be found alive in the trunk of the offenders’ car. This scene is the beginning of the film, which despite the criticism received for its poor political treatment, the director defended himself with respect to the book by emphasizing that it is a portrait of sexist violencethat today continues to plague our times.

With the premiere of this movie on Netflix, ‘The Catholic School’ has not only sparked public interest, but has also generated some controversy among the public and the Catholic community around the world.