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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Haifa Classics

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Vittorio De Sica
  • Italy, Germany 1970
  • 94 minutes
  • Italian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, languish in aristocratic splendor on their lavish estate in Ferrara. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to the Jews, the handsome and carefree Finzi-Contini children, Micol and Alberto, turn their home into a refuge for their young friends.
Vittorio De Sica won the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for this late masterpiece, nostalgic for a way of life now lost forever.
Filmography: Woman Times Seven (1967), Marriage Italian Style (1964), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), Umberto D. (1952), Miracle in Milan (1951), Shoeshine (1946).
Restored Digital Copy


  • Director Vittorio De Sica
  • Production Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn, Gianni Hecht Lucari
  • Script Vittorio Bonicelli, Ugo Pirro, based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani
  • Cinematography Ennio Guarnieri
  • Editing Adriana Novelli
  • Music Manuel De Sica
  • Actors Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
  • Source Arthur Cohn, Jerusalem

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis