---
title: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vittorio De Sica'
released: '1970-12-02'
runtime_minutes: 89
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'West Germany'
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1970'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065777/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

1970 · 89 min · Drama · West Germany, France, Italy

Original title: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini

## Synopsis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 1970 historical war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli adapts Italian Jewish author Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel, about the lives of an upper-class Jewish family in Ferrara during the Fascist era. The film stars Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Romolo Valli, and Fabio Testi in his breakthrough role.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vittorio De Sica](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-de-sica)
- **Screenplay:** [Ugo Pirro](https://cinepixo.com/people/ugo-pirro), [Cesare Zavattini](https://cinepixo.com/people/cesare-zavattini), [Franco Brusati](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-brusati), [Vittorio Bonicelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-bonicelli)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Manuel De Sica](https://cinepixo.com/people/manuel-de-sica)
- **Producer:** [Arthur Cohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-cohn), [Artur Brauner](https://cinepixo.com/people/artur-brauner), [Gianni Hecht Lucari](https://cinepixo.com/people/gianni-hecht-lucari)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ennio Guarnieri](https://cinepixo.com/people/ennio-guarnieri)

## Cast

- [Inna Alexeievna](https://cinepixo.com/people/inna-alexeievna)
- [Rudolf Hess](https://cinepixo.com/people/rudolf-hess)
- [Edoardo Toniolo](https://cinepixo.com/people/edoardo-toniolo)
- [Raffaele Curi](https://cinepixo.com/people/raffaele-curi)
- [Helmut Berger](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-berger)
- [Fabio Testi](https://cinepixo.com/people/fabio-testi)
- [Martin Bormann](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-bormann)
- [Franco Nebbia](https://cinepixo.com/people/franco-nebbia)
- [Alessandro D'Alatri](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-d-alatri)
- [Joshua Sinclair](https://cinepixo.com/people/joshua-sinclair)
- [Lino Capolicchio](https://cinepixo.com/people/lino-capolicchio)
- [Ettore Geri](https://cinepixo.com/people/ettore-geri)
- [Adolf Hitler](https://cinepixo.com/people/adolf-hitler)
- [Dominique Sanda](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-sanda)
- [Barbara Pilavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-pilavin)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1970
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