The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970

The Finzi-Continis were Italians living in Ferrara, Italy in 1938. They were rich, beautiful, unapproachable and Jewish. They lived in a walled dream world until they were forced to open the gates.

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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.

Release Date 1970-12-04
Runtime 1h 35m
Directors Vittorio De Sica, Ennio Guarnieri, Luisa Alessandri, Giorgio Treves
Producers Artur Brauner, Gianni Hecht Lucari, Arthur Cohn, Fausto Saraceni
Writers Giorgio Bassani, Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli