# The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971 Berlin Film Festival Winner) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner.md Podcast: [Awesome Movie Year](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341) Published: 2025-12-31T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://awesomemovieyear.com/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/09447bab-11ec-4fe8-9639-8d6d9002e470.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner Duration seconds: 3432 ## Resource The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner, Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . Directed by Vittorio De Sica, based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani, and starring Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger and Fabio Testi, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971 ), Vincent Canby in The New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/17/archives/garden-of-the-finzi-continis.html ), and Gene Siskel in the Chicago Tribune . Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at  http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/ , on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/ , on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at  https://www.piecingpod.com , on Twitter at  @piecingpod , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/  Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/awesome-movie-year-868341/episodes/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/awesome-movie-year-868341/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-1971-berlin-film-festival-winner.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.