# Hiding from Fascism: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'

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Podcast: [Fascism on Film Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fascism-on-film-podcast-7403915)
Published: 2025-08-18T02:18:31+00:00
Episode link: https://fascismonfilm.podbean.com/e/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis/
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Duration seconds: 1940

## Resource

This episode explores the haunting beauty and quiet devastation of "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," Vittorio De Sica’s adaptation of Giorgio Bassani’s semi-autobiographical novel. Set in Ferrara, Italy, during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the film focuses on an aristocratic Jewish family who, shielded behind the walls of their estate, remain willfully detached from the mounting threat of Italian fascism. As racial laws erode their rights and community life, their retreat into games, nostalgia, and gentility becomes an allegory for bourgeois denial and complicity. De Sica renders fascism not through spectacle, but through absence, silence, and subtle exclusion—making this a vital film for understanding how fascism consolidates power not just through violence, but through social norms, legal frameworks, and cultural passivity.

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