The Catholic School

The Catholic School

107 mins | Drama | Oct. 7, 2021

Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.

The Catholic School

107 mins | Drama | Oct. 7, 2021

The Catholic School
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers Warner Bros Pictures Italia, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Picomedia
Original title La scuola cattolica
Directors Stefano Mordini
Writers Edoardo Albinati, Stefano Mordini, Luca Infascelli, Massimo Gaudioso

Cast

Benedetta Porcaroli

as Donatella Colasanti

Giulio Pranno

as Andrea Ghira

Emanuele Maria Di Stefano

as Edoardo Albinati

Giulio Fochetti

as Arbus

Leonardo Ragazzini

as Salvatore

Alessandro Cantalini

as Picchiatello Martirolo

Andrea Lintozzi

as Gioacchino Rummo

Guido Quaglione

as Stefano Jervi

Federica Torchetti

as Rosaria Lopez

Luca Vergoni

as Angelo Izzo

Francesco Cavallo

as Gianni Guido

Angelica Elli

as Leda Arbus

Gianluca Guidi

as Ludovico Arbus

Fausto Russo Alesi

as Davide Rummo

Valentina Cervi

as Eleonora Rummo

Riccardo Scamarcio

as Raffaele Guido

Jasmine Trinca

as Coralla Martirolo

Corrado Invernizzi

as Preside

Valeria Golino

as Ilaria Arbus

Fabrizio Gifuni

as Golgota

Sergio Romano

as professore di Italiano

Marco Sincini

as Fratel Curzio

Giulio Tropea

as Gian Pietro Parboni Arquati