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  1. 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 Jewish family ...

  2. Dec 16, 1971 · The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli. The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

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    • Drama, History, War
    • Vittorio De Sica
    • 1971-12-16
  3. This classic Italian drama, based on the book of the same name by Giorgio Bassani, focuses on the intellectual Finzi-Contini family, Jewish aristocrats who live on an idyllic estate.

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    • Vittorio De Sica
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    • Helmut Berger
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  4. The Fascist government of Mussolini has declared the ordinary tennis clubs off limits for Italian Jews -- but what does that matter, here behind these tall stone walls that have faithfully guarded the Finzi-Contini family for generations?

  5. Synopsis. In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay.

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  6. The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s. Mussolini's Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families.

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  8. 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.

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