The Garden That Doesn't Exist
2021, Italian. Directed by Rä di Martino.
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.
- Runtime
- 0h 52m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Italian
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Cast & crew
- Rä di MartinoDirector
- Dominique SandaSelf
- Giorgio BassaniSelf (archive footage)
- Vittorio De SicaSelf (archive footage)
- Alessandro D'AlatriSelf
- Lino CapolicchioSelf
- Helmut BergerSelf (archive footage)
- Fabio TestiSelf (archive footage)
- Manuel De SicaSelf (archive footage)
- Francesca Alice AntoniniMicòl
- Federico BizzarriGiorgio
- Giovanni ToscanoMalnate
- Antoinette AaronCast
Details
- Released
- 1 December 2021
- Original title
- Il Giardino che non c'è
- Country
- France, Italy
- Written by
- Noa Karavan Cohen
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 December 2021. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Garden That Doesn't Exist?
The Garden That Doesn't Exist (2021) was directed by Rä di Martino and stars Dominique Sanda, Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio De Sica.