The Academy Award winning Holocaust film by neo-realist director De Sica, casts a saddening chill, even though it includes no scenes of concentration camp horrors or storm troopers on a rampage. The story of an aristocratic Jewish family in Italy in the years directly preceding the War is mostly set on the luxurious estate where the Finzi-Continis live an exquisite and sheltered existence. Lushly filmed, the pastel colored reverie of the past tells a haunting, bittersweet and eventually devastating story about the dangers of living life oblivious to the things beyond your gates.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 34 min.
- Country, year
- Italy, 1970
- Genre
- Drama, History, War
- Language
- Italian
- Subtitles
- English, Lithuanian
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Screenplay
- Vittorio Bonicelli, Ugo Pirro
- Producers
- Arthur Cohn, Gianni Hect Lucari, Artur Brauner
- Cinematography
- Ennio Guarnieri
- Music
- Manuel De Sica
- Cast
- Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmur Berger
Festivals and awards
- geriausias filmas užsienio kalba
- Romanian Days Award (Best Feature Film)
- Romanian Days Award (Best Feature Film)
- geriausias antraplanis aktorius · geriausias dailininko darbas
Director
Vittorio De Sica
Best known for the 1948 film The Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio de Sica directed more than 40 films, starred in more than 150 and gained critical recognition in both these roles. From the light-hearted, fluffy comedies to more arresting subjects in the wake of WWII and later mainstream endeavours, his works were instrumental in the forming of the canon of post war Italian cinema, their influence still being felt decades later.
