The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) - a film by Vittorio De Sica

Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Vittorio De Sica¿s Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (1970) is story of love, tennis, Italian Jewish culture, anti-Semitism, and class differences set in Ferrara, Italy at the beginning of WWII. In Italian with English subtitles.Prof. Saskia Ziolkowski will introduce the film which is being screened as the second in a series of three films of world cinema by Italian directors, drawing on literary works by Julio Cortázar, Giorgio Bassani, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, offered by the Tavola italiana in collaboration with Prof. Saskia Ziolkowsi's First Year Seminar on the theme of Adaptation: Cinema & Literature. The other films in the series are Antonioni's 'Blow-up' (September 1) and Visconti's 'White Nights' (October 26).