Rated R. Based on the novel of the same title by Giorgio Bassani. Originally released as Motion pictures in 1970. Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Ramolo Valli.
Summary:
This drama is 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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