The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

Original title

Il giardino dei Finzi Contini

Directed by

Vittorio De Sica

Genre

drama film

Country

West Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 287 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An upper-class Jewish family in Ferrara spends their days in their private garden, sheltered from the rising fascist threat. The story follows their lives and loves as the political situation around them grows darker.

elegiacmelancholicslow-burnpoignantnostalgicintimatesomberreflectivegraceful

What happens

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a 1970 historical war drama 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, about the lives of an upper-class Jewish family in Ferrara during the Fascist era. The film stars Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Romolo Valli, and Fabio Testi in his breakthrough role. An Italian and West German co-production, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival and won the Golden Bear. The film won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and earned a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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