The film on the Circeo crime has been censored, ‘La Scuola Cattolica’ is forbidden to minors under the age of 18

The film by Stefano Mordini, ‘La Scuola Cattolica’, based on the novel of the same name by Edoardo Albinati, has been censored. The Commission for the classification of cinematographic works commissioned by the Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture yesterday decided that the film, which tells the crime of Circeo, will be forbidden to minors under the age of 18. The production companies Warner Bros. and Picomedia report this. “The censorship is carried out on a film that tells a true story, a story of murder and rape. That of a serious violence perpetrated against two women, Rosaria Lopez and Donatella Colasanti, a crime that shocked the whole country, again I live in the collective conscience: the Circeo crime. A ban, which is imposed for a film that traces the facts that have marked the history of the Italian legal system, opening in 1975 a debate that would have ended only in 1996, when for the Italian law sexual violence went from being considered a crime against morality to a crime against the person “, reads the note from the producers, who recall how the film, presented out of competition at the last Venice Film Festival,” was classified as forbidden to minors under the age of 14 “. According to the Mic Commission, “the film presents a filmic narrative that has as its central point the substantial equation of the victim and the executioner” and for this reason, the majority believes “that the film is not suitable for children under the age of eighteen”. A decision “in stark contrast to what Minister Franceschini said last April – underlines the production – who, upon signing the decree that established the new Commission for the classification of cinematographic works, commented: ‘Film censorship abolished, that system definitively exceeded of controls and interventions that still allowed the State to intervene on the artists’ freedom. “I can’t find valid reasons for this censorship and if I try to find them, they worry me – comments the director Mordini – In the motivation of the censorship commission he complains the fact that the victims and the executioners are equated, with particular reference to a lesson given by a professor of religion, but this is exactly the opposite of what the film tells, and that is that, coming from the same culture, it is always possible to make a choice and do not deviate towards evil. One of the two victims, at the time, was a minor and ours is a film of teenagers starring teenagers “.” My clients are, respectively, the sister of Rosaria Lopez and the brother of Donatella Colasanti, and they are also heirs mortis causa “. declares the lawyer Stefano Chiriatti, explaining that despite “their evident involvement”, they “appreciated the desire to pass on, also as a warning for the future, the memory of their tragedy, especially to the younger generations. to the great surprise of the decision of the Ministry of Culture to forbid the viewing of the film to minors under the age of eighteen ”.