The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
- Lino Capolicchio: Giorgio
- Dominique Sanda: Micol Finzi Contini -
- Fabio Testi: Bruno Malnate
- Romolo Valli: Giorgios father
- Helmut Berger: Alberto Finzi - Contini
- Camillo Cesarei: Micòls father
- Inna Alexeiewna: Micòls grandmother
- Katia Morisani: Micòls mother
- Barbara Pilavin: Giorgios mother
The Garden of the Finzi Contini is an Italian film drama directed by Vittorio De Sica in the year 1970. The film is based on the novel The Garden of the Finzi - Contini ( Il giardino dei Finzi Contini - ) by Giorgio Bassani.
Action
The wealthy Jewish Literature Professor Finzi Contini lives in the Italian city of Ferrara with his wife and their two children, Micol and Alberto on a stately mansion with spacious garden. Towards the end of the 1930s, it is the Jewish population no longer allowed to participate in social life. In order to enable himself and his children, the participation in common leisure time with friends, he opens his garden to the public. Micol and Alberto can so play with other young tennis. So Micol and Giorgio come together; they have known each other since childhood. Giorgios father, also a Jew, is not thrilled by the wealthy Finzi - Contini; he considers them arrogant. Micol is worried about her brother Alberto, who is in poor health and gives the Bruno Malnate fellow students, whom she considers to be not a good deal. Micol rejects Giorgio; she meets with Malnate. As Giorgio discovered this, it hits hard the. Alberto succumbs to his illness, Malnate falls in Russia. With the beginning of World War II, the situation for Jews in Italy is always threatening. Arrested in 1943 Finzi - Contini you also to deport them. Micol meets in her former classroom at Giorgios Father and learns from him that it was Giorgio managed to flee abroad. Finally, you will hear a Jewish lament.
Criticism
" In places unnecessary coarsening, but adequate on the whole film adaptation of a novel by Giorgio Bassani. No anti-fascist film usual scheme, but an elegiac quiet, ethereal reality representation, the time history in private feelings and problems reflected. "
Background
The film had on December 4, 1970 premiere. It is available in a number of Italian films in the late 1960s to deal with the issue of fascism, including Luchino Visconti's The Damned ( 1968) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The great error (1969).
The literary model was manufactured in 1962, in the English translation as The Garden of the Finzi - Contini a year later.
Awards
- Berlin Film Festival 1971 Golden Bear
- David di Donatello 1971 Best Italian movie
- Academy Awards 1972: Best Foreign Language Film
- Best Adapted Screenplay ( nominated )
- British Film Prize 1973 Best Cinematography ( nominated )