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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Year:

1971

Duration:

94 min

Genres:

Drama | History | War

IMDB rate:

7.5

Director:

Vittorio De Sica

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1971-12-16

Filming Locations: Ferrara, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Earnings

Gross: $596,694 (USA) (12 January 1997)

Cast

Actor

Character

Fabio Testi

Lino Capolicchio

Giorgio

Dominique Sanda

Micòl Finzi Contini

Romolo Valli

Giorgio's Father

Helmut Berger

Alberto

Camillo Cesarei

Micol's Father

Inna Alexeievna

Micol's Grandmother (as Inna Alexeieff)

Katina Morisani

Micol's Mother

Barbara Pilavin

Giorgio's Mother (as Barbara Leonard Pilavin)

Michael Berger

Ettore Geri

Raffaele Curi

Ernesto

Gianpaolo Duregon

Marcella Gentile

Cinzia Bruno

Young Micol

Alessandro D'Alatri

Young Giorgio

Camillo Angelini-Rota

Prof. Ermanno Finzi-Contini

Enzo Nigro

Agente OVRA

Eugene Pomeroy

Joshua Sinclair

(as Gianni Loffredo)

Katina Viglietti

Olga Finzi-Contini

Martin Bormann

Himself - Behind Hitler on Balcony (archive footage) (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Rudolf Hess

Himself - Hitler Is Germany Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Himself - Acknowledges Hess (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Himself - Watches Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)

Julius Streicher

Himself - Sits Beside Hitler, Partially Visible (archive footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film was a personal triumph for 'Vittorio de Sica', a director who had struggled to have a hit since Marriage Italian Style (1964).

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Quotes

Micol: You and I are not normal people. For the two of us, what counts more than the possession of things - how shall I put it - is the remembrance of things, the memory of things.

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Giorgio's Father: In life, in order to understand, to really understand the world, you must die at least once. So it's better to die young, when there's still time left to recover and live again.

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Micol Finzi-Contini: Children are always prisoners of grownups.

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