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The Conformist
Why this pick
Like De Sica’s film, it turns Fascist Italy into an elegant, doomed social landscape, where exquisite period beauty and private longing are steadily poisoned by political conformity.
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MOVIE1970 1h 35m ITA
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The Last Metro
Why this pick
Its occupied-Paris theatre world echoes the original’s enclosed haven: artistic companionship, restrained affection, and daily ingenuity persist while antisemitic persecution closes in.
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Sunshine
Why this pick
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A Special Day
Why this pick
Set during Mussolini’s Rome, it shares the quiet tragedy of private tenderness unfolding beneath public spectacle, observing fascism through intimate gestures rather than overt melodrama.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, a group of young friends get together for afternoons of tennis and happy times. Some of them are History of the Jews in Italy and a rising tide of Fascism has imposed increasingly Antisemitism restrictions in their lives. Barred from regular tennis clubs, they go to play at the grand, walled estate owned by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy, intellectual and sophisticated Jewish family. The two young Finzi-Continis, Alberto and his sister Micòl, have organized a tennis tournament. Oblivious to the threats around them, life still seems to be sunny at the large Finzi-Contini estate, keeping the rest of the world at bay.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Fabio Testi
Bruno
Helmut Berger
Alberto
Barbara Pilavin
madre di Giorgio
Dominique Sanda
Micol
Lino Capolicchio
Giorgio