In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.
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Lino Capolicchio as Giorgio |
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Dominique Sanda as Micól |
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Fabio Testi as Bruno |
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Romolo Valli as padre di Giorgio |
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Helmut Berger as Alberto |
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Camillo Cesarei as padre di Micól |
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Inna Alexeievna as nonna di Micól |
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Katina Morisani as madre di Micól |
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Barbara Pilavin as madre di Giorgio |
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Michael Berger as Studente tedesco |
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Ettore Geri as Pierotti |
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Raffaele Curi as Ernesto, fratello di Giorgio |
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Gianpaolo Duregon as |
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Marcella Gentile as |
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Cinzia Bruno as Micól giovane |
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Alessandro D'Alatri as Giorgio giovane |
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Franco Nebbia as Professor De Marchis |
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Edoardo Toniolo as Direttore della biblioteca |
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Camillo Angelini-Rota as |
Production | Arthur Cohn | Producer |
Directing | Vittorio De Sica | Director |
Production | Artur Brauner | Producer |
Editing | Adriana Novelli | Editor |
Camera | Giancarlo Ferrando | Camera Operator |
Writing | Vittorio Bonicelli | Screenplay |
Camera | Ennio Guarnieri | Director of Photography |
Sound | Carlo Savina | Conductor |
Production | Gianni Hecht Lucari | Producer |
Sound | Manuel De Sica | Original Music Composer |
Writing | Giorgio Bassani | Novel |
Production | Fausto Saraceni | Executive Producer |
Production | Claudio Saraceni | Accountant |
Writing | Ugo Pirro | Screenplay |
Art | Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni | Costume Design |
Art | Franco D'Andria | Set Decoration |
Directing | Giorgio Treves | Second Assistant Director |
Costume & Make-Up | Anna Cristofani | Hairstylist |
Directing | Luisa Alessandri | First Assistant Director |
Costume & Make-Up | Giulio Natalucci | Makeup Artist |
Sound | Franco Bassi | Sound Mixer |
Costume & Make-Up | Antonio Randaccio | Assistant Costume Designer |
Editing | Carla Zamponi | Assistant Editor |
Production | Enzo Nigro | Unit Manager |
Sound | Massimo Loffredi | Sound |
Production | Romano Dandi | Production Manager |
Camera | Michele Picciaredda | Assistant Camera |
Camera | Giorgio Urbinelli | Assistant Camera |
Directing | Franca Invernizzi | Script Supervisor |
Sound | Max Galinsky | Sound |
Editing | Marisa Letti | Assistant Editor |