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The Garden That Doesn't Exist

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 4, 2022

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

62%

Original Title

The Garden That Doesn't Exist

Production Companies

ARTE, Les Films du Poisson, Alto Piano

Director

Rä di Martino

Description

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.