THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI:CONTINIS

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: Internationally-acclaimed director Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award®-winning classic (Best Foreign Language Film, 1971) is gorgeously remastered and features new yellow subtitles for better legibility.; ; Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, languish in aristocratic splendor on their Eden-like estate in Ferrara, Italy. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to its Jewish citizens, the handsome and carefree Finzi-Contini children Micol (Dominique Sanda) and Alberto (Helmut Berger) turn their well-appointed home into a refuge for their young friends. In an atmosphere of emotional instability, they play out a series of heartbreaking romantic rituals which spiral into tragedy as Fascism gradually descends upon their world.; ; The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis returned director De Sica, one of the world's greatest and most influential filmmakers, to the acclaim garnered by his neo-realist classics Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief.
• Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger, Camillo Cesarei, Inna Alexeievna, Katina Morisani, Barbara Pilavin, Raffaele Curi, Cinzia Bruno, Alessandro D'Alatri, Camillo Angelini-Rota, Enzo Nigro, Joshua Sinclair, Katina Viglietti, Martin Bormann, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Julius Streicher, Vittorio De Sica
• Director: Vittorio De Sica
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Media Format: movie