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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(Il giardino dei Finzi Contini)

Screening on Film
Directed by Vittorio De Sica.
With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi.
West Germany/Italy, 1970, 35mm, color, 94 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

A middle-class student (Capolicchio), invited to research his thesis in the private library of the wealthy Finzi-Contini family, ends up falling in love with the family's beautiful daughter (Sanda). As the anti-Semitic edicts imposed by Mussolini in the late 1930s begin to take effect, the Jewish Finzi-Continis remain oblivious to the severe consequences they must inevitably face. The film was regarded by many critics as a return to form for De Sica, who spent much of the 1960s directing Sophia Loren vehicles It was awarded the 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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