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)Plots(1)
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 bit worried about what this would be, fearing it might be too European, but in the end, I was pleasantly surprised by how it was possible to make a film about a Jewish family in pre-war Italy. It's historical, it's believable, and it's not unnecessary emotional blackmail. Still, I think I'll forget the film quickly.
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