The celebrated director of neoreliast masterpieces including Bicycle Thieves and Shoeshine Vittorio De Sica once again stuck gold in 1970. After ten years of trying he finally adapted Giorgio Bassani's celebrated novel to great acclaim and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Set at the outbreak of War De Sica's film tells the story of the Finzi-Continis an aristocratic Jewish family protected by the walls of their idyllic estate. Whilst outside Mussolini bans Jews from tennis courts the Finzi-Continis are not worried as they rally on their own living in their dreamland.... Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is the middle-class Jew in love with his childhood friend Micol (Dominique Sanda) of the Finzi-Contini family but she is in love with a gentile and wanting of experiences outlawed by the new government. With Giorgio's separation of Micol De Sica tracks the loss of an idyllic way of life from the tennis courts to the waiting rooms where Jews await transportation to the concentration camps. Arrow Academy presents Vittorio De Sica's autumnal masterpiece The Garden of the Finzi Contini on DVD for the first time in the UK. [show more]
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Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI-CONTINI (THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS) based on a book by Giorgio Bassani In Ferrara Italy at the beginning of WWII anti-Semitism is spreading Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public schools joining the army or marrying non-Jews While many middle-class Jewish families flee the country the Finzi-Continis believe it&39;s safe inside their sprawling estate As a wealthy aristocratic Jewish family they think their luxurious garden walls will protect them from fascism Micol Finzi Contini (Dominique Sanda) and her brother (Helmut Berger) invite their Jewish friends to join them in the estate for parties tennis and games while the war ravages on Middle-class Jew Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) attends the parties with his friend Malnate (Fabio Testi) Giorgio and Micol are childhood sweethearts but she begins to reject him in favor of Malnate She also refuses to accept that there&39;s a war going on Eventually they can pretend no longer and the war closes in on them
Drama set in the Italian city of Ferrara in the late 1930s, adapted from the novel by Giorgio Bassani. In the estate grounds of wealthy Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, brother and sister Alberto (Helmut Berger) and Micol (Dominique Sanda) and their friends, Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) and Bruno (Fabio Testi), play tennis and enjoy relaxing afternoons. Away from the seclusion and safety of the estate, however, fascism is on the rise...
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