Italy, 1959. A ten-year-old boy called Guido enters a Catholic seminary, fascinated by the idea of becoming a priest. He quickly understands that in order to be a good seminarian he has to submit to an ascetic and unnatural training, consisting in mortification of the flesh, obsession with sin and repression of one's sexual instincts and desires. Guido finds himself up against a deeply hierarchical system, where strict observance of rules and blind obedience to superiors are taught. A system in which thinking for oneself is forbidden.
Directed by Cecconi Gabriele
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Related
The Mass Is Ended
Mary
The Family
Fatima
Things We Don't Say
Bad Tales
Five Seconds
Novitiate
A Daughter
Finally Dawn
The Girl in the Book
Salomé
Father Stu
Hands of Stone
Palm Trees and Power Lines
The Keys of the Kingdom