Garden of the Finzi-Continis (The)
Original Title
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini- Director: Vittorio De Sica
- Writer: Giorgio Bassani, Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Brusati, Alain Katz, Tullio Pinelli, Cesare Zavattini, Valerio Zurlini
- Producer: Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn, Gianni Hecht Lucari, Fausto Saraceni
CGiii Comment
The Finzi-Continis were Italians living in Ferrara, Italy in 1938. They were rich, beautiful, unapproachable and Jewish. They lived in a walled dream world until they were forced to open the gates.
Mussolini's Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Their adult children gather friends for tennis and parties at their lovely grounds, with the rest of the world at bay, while politics close in.
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Cast & Characters
Lino Capolicchio ... Giorgio
Dominique Sanda ... Micòl Finzi Contini
Fabio Testi ... Giampiero Malnate
Romolo Valli ... Padre di Giorgio
Helmut Berger ... Alberto Finzi Contini
Camillo Cesarei ... Prof. Ermanno Finzi Contini
Inna Alexeieff ... Regina Artom Herrera
Katina Morisani ... Olga Finzi Contini
Barbara Pilavin ... Madre di Giorgio (as Barbara Leonard Pilavin)
Michael Berger ... Studente tedesco
Ettore Geri ... Maggiordomo Perotti
Raffaele Curi ... Ernesto, fratello di Giorgio
Giampaolo Duregon ... Bruno Lattes
Marcella Gentile ... Fanny, sorella di Giorgio
Cinzia Bruno ... Micol da bambina
Alessandro D'Alatri ... Giorgio da bambino
Camillo Angelini-Rota ... Prof. Ermanno Finzi-Contini
Joshua Sinclair (as Gianni Loffredo)
Martin Bormann ... Self - Behind Hitler on Balcony (archive footage) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
Rudolf Hess ... Self - Hitler Is Germany Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler ... Self - Acknowledges Hess (archive footage) (uncredited)
Karl Menzel ... Tennis Player (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini ... Self - Watches Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franco Nebbia ... Prof. De Marchis (uncredited)
Enzo Nigro ... Agente OVRA (uncredited)