The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
By: an Italian-German coproduction [by] Documento Film [and] Filmkunst ; produced by Gianni Hecht Luchari and Arthur Cohn ; directed by Vittorio de Sica ; adaptation and screenplay by Ugo Pirro [and] Vittorio Bonicelli
Contributors: Bassani, Giorgio; Sanda, Dominique; Capolicchio, Lino; Documento Film; Filmkunst; Lorimar Home Video
Publisher: Lorimar Home Video
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Irvine, Calif
Language: ita
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Feature films; Fascism; Drama; Jews; History
Description: Set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond their fenced garden.
Notes: Italian with English subtitles.

English version by Titan Productions, Inc. ; directed by Lee Kresel ; edited by Eli Haviv.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.

Based on the novel of the same name by Giorgio Bassani.

Director of photography, Ennio Guarnieri ; art director, Giancarlo and Bartolini Salimbeni ; film editor, Adrianna Novelli ; music, Manual de Sica.

Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger.