The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 1970 Italian film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. It stars Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. The film is based upon Giorgio Bassani's novel of the same name. In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, a group of young friends get together for afternoons of tennis and happy times. Some of them are Jewish and a rising tide of Fascism has imposed increasingly anti-Semitic restrictions in their lives. Barred from regular tennis clubs, they go to play at the grand, walled estate owned by the Finzi-Contini, a wealthy, intellectual and sophisticated... Jewish family. The two young Finzi-Contini, Alberto and his sister Micol, have organized a tennis tournament. Oblivious to the threats around them, life still seems to be sunny at the large Finzi-Contini estate, keeping the rest of the world at bay. Among the visitors there is a man vying for the beautiful, tall and blond, Micol Finzi-Contini. Her middle class Jewish, childhood friend is Giorgio, who feels entitled to her heart. A series of flashbacks show how Giorgio used to wait outside the walls of the estate, hoping for a glimpse of Micol.
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| Release date: | 1970 |
| Directed by: | Vittorio de Sica |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Producer: | Arthur Cohn, Artur Brauner, Gianni Hecht Lucari |
| Editor: | Adriana Novelli |
| Music by: | Manuel De Sica, Carlo Savina |
| Cinematography: | Ennio Guarnieri |
| Screenplay by: | Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio Bonicelli, Vittorio de Sica |