| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS] | ![The Garden of the Finzi-Continis [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NHABJNEYL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: Video
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Seller: Roeys Bookshelf
Sales Rank: 57,342
Format: Color, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0800173465
UPC: 043396601932
EAN: 9780800173463
ASIN: 0800173465
Release Date: February 15, 2000
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| Editorial Reviews:
Set in northern Italy's Ferrara community at the outbreak of World War II, this classic film by Vittorio De Sica concerns an old, aristocratic Jewish family, the Finzi-Continis, who maintain their isolated, idyllic ways within the stone walls of their lush estate while Mussolini imprisons Jews outside. The story's central figure, young Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), is a middle-class Jew who has always found perfect sanctuary within the Finzi-Continis' walls and who is in love with his childhood friend from that family, Micol (Dominique Sanda). Micol, however, is sexually restless and fit to burst for want of experiences impossible under government oppression. As Giorgio suffers his estrangement from her, De Sica traces the disintegration of a lost and beautiful way of life, slowly turning his focus from the privileged refuge of tennis courts and private libraries to police barriers and rooms where Jews await transport to concentration camps. This powerful work of memory tragically captures a loss of innocence on both the most personal and historical stages. --Tom Keogh
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