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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 4, 1970

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

69%

Original Title

Il giardino dei Finzi Contini

Production Companies

Documento Film, CCC Filmkunst

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Description

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. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.