The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(Il giardino dei Finzi Contini)
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Italy, West Germany · 1970
Rated R · 1h 35m
Director Vittorio De Sica
Starring Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Genre Drama, War
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In late 1930s Italy, an upper-class Jewish family struggles to keep social tensions at bay among their diverse group of friends as antisemitism and fascism become widespread.
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