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Mood:
- GloomySentimentalTouchingCaptivatingBittersweetContemplativeThought Provoking
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- Anti SemitismFamily LifeWartime LifeLife is a BitchSocietyHolocaustFascismConfined more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century30s40sWorld War 2
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- EuropeItaly
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedMasterpieceOscar WinnerBerlin Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Based on Book
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1970
Italian
Italy, West Germany
Profile of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis can be described as bittersweet, gloomy, and sentimental. The plot revolves around anti semitism, wartime life, and family life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and period. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in Italy. It takes place in the 1930s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a Berlin festival winner, a masterpiece, and an Oscar winner.
Summary of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Master storyteller Vittorio de Sica sets his last great film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis in the small Italian town of Ferrara during World War II. The Finzi-Continis, a wealthy Jewish family, live in a castle surrounded by a beautiful garden. While the garden creates the family's physical barrier to the outside world, an elaborate series of psychological barriers allow the family to avoid thinking about the fascists who rule the country beyond their gates. But like all Italian Jews, the Finzi-Continis cannot escape the effects of the war raging around them, and the times eventually catch up to them. A work of fine detail and striking beauty, de Sica's film is inarguably one of the masterpieces of world cinema.
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| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy, West Germany |
| Release date: | 16 December 1971 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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as Micòl Finzi Contini
as Giorgio
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