Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
Directed by:
Vittorio De SicaCinematography:
Ennio GuarnieriComposer:
Manuel De SicaCast:
Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger, Cinzia Bruno, Alessandro D'Alatri, Joshua Sinclair, Adolf Hitler (a.f.) (more)VOD (1)
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The film tells the story of the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts, the Finzi-Continis are not worried as they rally on their own, living in their dreamland. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend, Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi-Contini family, but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol, De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life, from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. (Arrow Films)
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I was a little worried about what this would be like, I was afraid that it would be too European, but in the end I was pleasantly surprised by how it is possible to make a film about a Jewish family before the war in Italy. It is historical, it is believable, and it is not unnecessary emotional manipulation. However, I still think that I will quickly forget about the film.
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