The garden of the Finzi Contini

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Movie
German title The garden of the Finzi Contini
Original title Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Country of production Italy , Germany
original language Italian
Publishing year 1970
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Vittorio De Sica
script Vittorio Bonicelli
Ugo Pirro
production Arthur Cohn
Gianni Hecht Lucari
Artur Brauner
music Manuel De Sica
camera Ennio Guarnieri
cut Adriana Novelli
occupation

The Garden of the Finzi Contini is an Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica from 1970 based on the novel The Gardens of the Finzi-Contini ( Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini ) by Giorgio Bassani .

action

The wealthy Jewish literature professor Finzi-Contini lives in the Italian city of Ferrara with his wife and two children Micòl and Alberto on a stately home with a spacious garden. Towards the end of the 1930s, the Jewish population is no longer allowed to participate in social life. In order to enable himself and his children to participate in recreational activities with friends, he opens his garden to the general public. Micòl and Alberto can play tennis with other young people . So Micòl and Giorgio come together; they have known each other since childhood. Giorgio's father, also a Jew , is not enthusiastic about the rich Finzi-Continis; he thinks she is arrogant. Micòl is worried about her brother Alberto, who is in poor health and is involved with fellow student Bruno Malnate, whom she does not think is a good company. Micòl rejects Giorgio; she meets with Malnate. When Giorgio discovered this, it hit him hard. Alberto succumbs to his illness, Malnate falls in Russia. With the beginning of the Second World War , the situation for Italy's Jews became more and more threatening. In 1943 the Finzi-Contini were arrested in order to deport them . Micòl meets Giorgio's father in her former classroom and learns from him that Giorgio managed to flee abroad. At the end the Jewish prayer El male rachamim , which is recited on Yom HaScho'a , the “Day of Remembrance of the Shoah and heroism”, will be heard .

criticism

“Sometimes unnecessarily coarse, but on the whole an adequate film adaptation of a novel by Giorgio Bassani. Not an anti-fascist film with the usual scheme, but an elegiac-quiet, deprived of reality that reflects contemporary history in private feelings and problems. "

- film service

background

The film premiered on December 4, 1970. He is in a number of Italian films dealing with the subject of fascism in the late 1960s , including Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1968) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Great Mistake (1969).

The literary model appeared in 1962, the German translation a year later. The author Giorgio Bassani, who lived in Ferrara until his arrest in the summer of 1943 and whose work is pervaded by a special “love for the hometown”, thus “set a monument from his own experience to the Jewish community and its downfall in the once legendary Jewish-friendly city”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The garden of the Finzi Contini. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Gustav Seibt : Review by Giorgio Bassani: Memories of the Heart . With texts by Giulio Cattaneo, Paolo Ravenna and Eberhard Schmidt. Edited by Eberhard Schmidt. Piper series, Munich 1991 (PDF). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 1991, p. 32.
  3. ^ Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: The new gardens of the Finzi-Contini. Jewish General , November 4, 2013.