The garden of the Finzi-Continis [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics ; from Cinema 5 ; adaptation and screenplay by Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli ; produced by Gianni Hecht Lucari for Documento Film and Arthur Cohn ; directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.85:1). Based on the novel of the same title by Giorgio Bassani. Originally released as motion picture in 1970. Special features include: Bonus trailers ; filmographies. Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger.
Summary:
Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semetic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden.
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