The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Dominique Sanda Lino Capolicchio Helmut Berger Fabio Testi Romolo Valli
	Video by:	Sony Pictures
	Sales Rank:	37646

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Actor(s):
Dominique Sanda
Lino Capolicchio
Helmut Berger
Fabio Testi
Romolo Valli

Creators:
Alain Katz (Writer)
Cesare Zavattini (Writer)
Franco Brusati (Writer)
Giorgio Bassani (Writer)
Tullio Pinelli (Writer)
Ugo Pirro (Writer)
Valerio Zurlini (Writer)

Director(s):
Vittorio De Sica

Recording label: Sony Pictures
EAN: 9780800173463
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0800173465
Format: Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 2000-02-15
Universal product code (UPC): 043396601932
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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Set in northern Italy's Ferrara community at the outbreak of World War II, this classic film by Vittorio De Sica concerns an old, aristocratic Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, who maintain their isolated, idyllic ways within the stone walls of their lush estate while Mussolini imprisons Jews outside. The story's central figure, young Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), is a middle-class Jew who has always found perfect sanctuary within the Finzi-Continis' walls and who is in love with his childhood friend from that family, Micol (Dominique Sanda). Micol, however, is sexually restless and fit to burst for want of experiences impossible under government oppression. As Giorgio suffers his estrangement from her, De Sica traces the disintegration of a lost and beautiful way of life, slowly turning his focus from the privileged refuge of tennis courts and private libraries to police barriers and rooms where Jews await transport to concentration camps. This powerful work of memory tragically captures a loss of innocence on both the most personal and historical stages. --Tom Keogh

Running time: 94 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Subtitled)