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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
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 ...
Dec 16, 1971 · A 1970 drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about a Jewish family in Ferrara, Italy in the 1930s. The film won an Oscar and explores the themes of love, politics and identity in a turbulent time.
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- Drama, History, War
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1971-12-16
Then ancient tombs of the Etruscans, dead four or five thousand years ago, their forgotten lives given recognition by a nine-year-old girl; the mausoleum of the Finzi-Continis family, with its last dead, now unattended and had lost it fight against the relentless siege of the surrounding vegetation; the family's big house, where once the Finzi ...
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A classic Italian drama based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about a Jewish aristocratic family and their friends in Fascist Italy. Watch the movie on Prime Video and see the ratings and reviews from critics and users.
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- Vittorio De Sica
- R
- Helmut Berger
A classic film by Vittorio De Sica about the Jewish community in Italy before World War II. The review praises the director's symbolism, visual strategy and understated sexual ambiguity.
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.
