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Life Is Beautiful (1997)

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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

More info on IMDb.com

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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 Directed by
Roberto Benigni
Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Down by Law
 Written by
Roberto Benigni
Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Down by Law
Vincenzo Cerami
Johnny Stecchino, Tigre e la neve, La, Piccolo diavolo, Il
 Cast
Roberto Benigni
Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, Down by Law
Horst Buchholz
The Magnificent Seven, One, Two, Three, Aces: Iron Eagle III
Nicoletta Braschi
Down by Law, Mystery Train, The Sheltering Sky
Giustino Durano
Andata e ritorno, Un monsieur de compagnie
Sergio Bini Bustric
Papa buono, Il
Giuliana Lojodice
Not of This World, Perlasca. Un eroe italiano
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 Music By
Nicola Piovani
The Son's Room, Dear Diary, Pinocchio



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