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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a 1970 Italian historical drama war film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli adapts Italian Jewish author Giorgio Bassani 's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name , about the lives of an upper-class Jewish family ...
Dec 16, 1971 · The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli. The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
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- Drama, History, War
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1971-12-16
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis. In director Vittorio De Sica's Oscar-winning masterpiece (1972, Best Foreign Language Film), an aristocratic Jewish family retreats behind the walls of its lush, Italian country estate to take refuge from the approaching fascist storm of the 1930s.
Giorgio's younger brother, sent to France to study, finds out to his horror about the German concentration camps. There has been no word of them in Italy, of course. Italy in those final prewar years is painted by De Sica as a perpetual wait for something no one admitted would come: war and the persecution of the Jews.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) is an Italian historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini until the start of World War II .
- Giorgio Bassani
- 1962
A world where love was forgotten... a garden where love grew. Overview. In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish.
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This classic Italian drama, based on the book of the same name by Giorgio Bassani, focuses on the intellectual Finzi-Contini family, Jewish aristocrats who live on an idyllic estate.
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