GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1970 Vittorio De Sica Wartime Drama THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (IL GIARDINO DEI FINZI CONTINI), based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani and starring Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi and Romolo Valli.

In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a circle of friends for constant rounds of tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, keeping the rest of the world at bay. Into the circle steps Giorgio, a Jew from the middle class who falls in love with Micol. She seems to toy with him, and even makes love to one of his friends while she knows Giorgio is watching. While his love cannot seem to break through to her to draw her out of her garden idyll, the forces of politics close in.

Poster art by Roger Boumendil

The poster is in very good folded condition with corner pinholes and 2 small holes in the image area top right.