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The deep story is the Massacre of the Circeo.
In September 1975, two young men, Andrea Ghira and Gianni Guido, lured two girls, Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria Lopez, into a villa under the pretense of a party. What followed was a nightmare of torture, rape, and humiliation that lasted over 30 hours.
The horror was exacerbated by a phone call made to a third accomplice—elections clerk Alessandro Saffi—who did not report the crime but instead brought others to watch. It was a crime that shattered Italy’s perception of itself. It wasn't committed by monsters in the shadows, but by "normal" boys from good Catholic families. The.Catholic.School.2021.1080p.WEB.h264-KOGi
Rosaria Lopez was murdered, her body stuffed into the trunk of a car. Donatella Colasanti survived by playing dead. When she finally escaped and screamed for help in the middle of the night, the police found the car. The nation woke up to a new reality: the "boys next door" were capable of Auschwitz-level atrocities.
Title: The Catholic School (Original Italian title: La scuola cattolica) Release Year: 2021 Runtime: Approx. 107 minutes Country: Italy Language: Italian Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller (based on true events) The deep story is the Massacre of the Circeo
The Catholic School is a provocative and unsettling Italian drama directed by Stefano Mordini, adapted from the acclaimed novel of the same name by Edoardo Albinati. The film reconstructs the shocking true story of the Circeo massacre of 1975, a brutal crime that exposed the toxic underbelly of privilege, toxic masculinity, and institutional failure within Rome’s elite Catholic educational system.
The narrative follows three wealthy young men—former students of a prestigious all-boys Catholic school run by the San Leone Magno institute. Over two days, their seemingly ordinary lives spiral into a horrifying sequence of violence, sexual assault, and murder. The film weaves together the events leading up to the crime, the brutal attack on two young women, and the subsequent trial that shocked Italy. two young men
Rather than focusing solely on the crime itself, the film serves as a sociological indictment of the 1970s Italian upper class, exploring how a culture of misogyny, entitlement, and religious hypocrisy fostered an environment where such atrocities could occur.