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Life is Beautiful

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 116 mins

Original Title

La Vita è Bella
  • Director: Roberto Benigni
  • Writer: Vincenzo Cerami; Roberto Benigni
  • Producer: Gianluigi Braschi; Mario Cotone

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A true wonder of a film.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Cast & Characters

Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice;
Nicoletta Braschi as Dora;
Giorgio Cantarini as Giosue Orefice;
Giustino Durano as Eliseo Orefice;
Sergio Bini Bustric as Ferruccio Papini;
Marisa Paredes as Madre di Dora;
Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing;
Lidia Alfonsi as Guicciardini;
Giuliana Lojodice as School Principal;
Amerigo Fontani as Rodolfo;
Pietro De Silva as Bartolomeo;
Francesco Guzzo as Vittorino;
Raffaella Lebboroni as Elena;
Claudio Alfonsi as Amico Rodolfo;
Gil Baroni as Prefect