Our final film in the Jewish Film Series with be shown on Saturday night the 27th at Oldcastle Theatre at 7:00 pm. Oldcastle is located at 331 Main Street in Bennington. Sit back and enjoy a glass of wine while you watch this riveting story. "Italy in those final prewar years is painted by De Sica as a perpetual wait for something no one admitted would come: war and the persecution of the Jews. The walled garden of the Finzi-Continis is his symbol for this waiting period." Roger Ebert January 1971      

Finzi-Continis are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families in Mussolini's Italy in the late 1930s. Their adult children gather friends for tennis and parties at their lovely grounds, with the rest of the world at bay, while politics close in. A classic film of life in a difficult world, Vittori DeSica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a moving film about an aristocratic Jewish family living in Italy during World War II who don't comprehend the threat of the Nazis until its too late. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and boasts terrific performances by Helmut Berger and Dominique Sanda.