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Life Is Beautiful (1997) | User Rating
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Original title: La Vita è bella
Release Date
• USA: Oct 23, 1998
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 9, 1999
• R2: 22 Jan 2001
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for holocaust-related thematic elements.
Running Time
2 hours, 2 minutes
Country Italy
Studio Cecchi Gori Distribuzione
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Other Titles
• Life Is Beautiful (1998)
• La Vita è bella
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Genre: Romance, War, Drama, Comedy, Tear Jerker, Experimental, Period Piece, Love Triangle, Marriage, Love, World War II
Tagline: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
Plot: Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, however, is turned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and their young son, Giosué (Giorgio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic, the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. (A similar work--THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, a Jerry Lewis film about a comedian in a concentration camp--turned out to be a disaster two decades earlier.) Although LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did provoke some controversy, many people found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.
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