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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) is an Italian historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini until the start of World War II .
In 1938 in Ferrara, the Finzi Contini are a rich Jewish family living in a mansion set in a park. When Jews are banned from the city's tennis club, the family allow the friends of their two children, Micòl and the sickly Alberto, to use their private tennis court.
Dec 16, 1971 · The Garden of the Finzi-Continis: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli. The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
The Fascist government of Mussolini has declared the ordinary tennis clubs off limits for Italian Jews -- but what does that matter, here behind these tall stone walls that have faithfully guarded the Finzi-Contini family for generations?
This classic Italian drama, based on the book of the same name by Giorgio Bassani, focuses on the intellectual Finzi-Contini family, Jewish aristocrats who live on an idyllic estate.
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Jul 14, 2005 · On ‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’. In the autumn of 1943, 183 members of the Jewish community of Ferrara, a small town in the northeast of Italy, were rounded up, imprisoned, and deported to concentration camps in Germany. Only one returned.
The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis In director Vittorio De Sica's Oscar-winning masterpiece (1972, Best Foreign Language Film), an aristocratic Jewish family retreats behind the walls of its lush, Italian country estate to take refuge from the approaching fascist storm of the 1930s.