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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SANDRA,DOMINIQUE
EAN: 9780767863995
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767863992
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 42835
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 16, 1971
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The story of a wealthy Jewish family living in fascist Italy in 1938. A portrayal of how the Jews were stripped of possessions, dignity and freedom.
Genre: Foreign Film - Italian
Rating: R
Release Date: 19-JUN-2001
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Set in northern Italy's Ferrara community at the outbreak of World War II, this classic film by Vittorio De Sica concerns an old, aristocratic Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, who maintain their isolated, idyllic ways within the stone walls of their lush estate while Mussolini imprisons Jews outside. The story's central figure, young Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), is a middle-class Jew who has always found perfect sanctuary within the Finzi-Continis' walls and who is in love with his childhood friend from that family, Micol (Dominique Sanda). Micol, however, is sexually restless and fit to burst for want of experiences impossible under government oppression. As Giorgio suffers his estrangement from her, De Sica traces the disintegration of a lost and beautiful way of life, slowly turning his focus from the privileged refuge of tennis courts and private libraries to police barriers and rooms where Jews await transport to concentration camps. This powerful work of memory tragically captures a loss of innocence on both the most personal and historical stages. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Loved it!
Are you only a fan of escapist fiction? If so, this movie is DEFINITELY NOT for you. That is a fact. I like escapist fiction, butvI also like films and literature filled with lush poetry, subtle verve, dreamy nostalgia, and serene visuals. This movie qualifies. No action. No slam, bang, pow. This movie instead focuses on the quiet aching that comes with unrequited love, haughty isolationism, passive acceptance and submission. The war, facism, the holocaust, all are covered to a degree without immersing ... Read More
Rating: - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Vittorio de Sica's gorgeous, elegiac film is a solemn meditation on loss of innocence set during one of the most turbulent eras in world history. The Finzi-Continis believe their privilege will protect them from fascist oppression, but their willed isolation and passivity only makes their eventual downfall that much more tragic. Certain images--Giorgio and Micol's ill-fated romantic tryst in a buggy, the slow-motion halcyon portraits of each family member that closes the film--stick with you. A poetic, ... Read More
Rating: - brilliant historical drama on youth and italian fascism
This is a deep and lyrical film on the Italian brand of fascism, which many have argued was a "lighter" and more acceptable version than the Hitlerian variety. Well, in this film, what that translates into is that the noose tightens more slowly. In this, you witness gifted and lucky youth, as they attempt to cope with and then shut out what is happening outside the confines of the walls of their property. There are the aristocratic and beautiful Finzi-Continis and their poorer Jewish confreres. Of course, ... Read More
Rating: - The fate of refusing to believe the unbelievable when it's the truth
How people blind themselves to the reality around them and insulate themselves from the truth. The movie deals with the Fascist takeover of Jewish property and freedoms in Italy during WW II.
The focus is on one Jewish family and their refusal to take seriously what's happening to them by the authorities until it's too late: by movie's end they are stripped of their property and are being readied to be shipped to a concentration camp. Yet they STILL can't see the writing on the wall. Their insular ... Read More
Rating: - A painful portrait with under the vision of De Sica!
A love story placed in Mussolini 's Italy in the intimacy of an aristocratic Jew family whom ignore their condition until they are arrested and deported.
Solid script, admirable cast, that deservedly won the academy Award in 1971 as Best Foreign Film.
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