DESCRIPTION:
(from Netflix's press release, January 2026) Minerva Academy is a teen drama series set in a military high school in Naples. It is a world that seems to belong to another era, where students are woken up at dawn for the flag-raising ceremony, where mobile phones and civilian clothes are not allowed, and where subjects include military tactics and fencing lessons. It is a world where love stories are forbidden and every mistake comes at a very high price. The protagonists of the series are Salvo (Ciro Minopoli), a boy from a foster home who entered the school to discover the truth about the fate of his best friend; Vincenzo (Biagio Venditti), who wants to emulate his father’s military career; and Camilla (Margherita Buoncristiani), a spoilt girl from Milan who was sent there by her father to be reformed. Minerva Academy also talks about adults, the officers and civilian teachers who are there to train the young people, but who have to deal with their consciences, their fragility and their mistakes. At the Minerva Academy military high school, the students, pushed to their limits, discover unexpected things about themselves. Every young person there has ambitions and dreams. The school will not help them achieve them. The school will make them understand if they were right for them. In a word, it will make them grow up. |
