Life is Beautiful (1998)

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Written by Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni

Directed by Roberto Benigni

Running Time: 130 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1998

Rating: PG Certificate

Filmed in Colour

Guido Orefice (Robert Benigni) is an Italian Jew who has a wonderful romance with Dora, aided by his brilliant, mad-cap sense of humour, they soon marry and have a son, Giosué (Giorgio Cantarini).

On his son's 5th birthday his sense of humour is tested to the limits when they are both captured and imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Guido tries to shield his young son from the terrors that surrounds them, by telling him that it is all a big game in which the winner will recieve a real tank.

Roberto Benigni's comedy drama won the Oscars for Best Foreign Film and Best Actor, and truely deserved each one. An absolutely fantastic film.

Cast

Roberto BenigniGuido Orefice
Nicoletta BraschiDora
Giustino DuranoEliseo Orefice
Lidia AlfonsiGuicciardini
Sergio Bini BustricFerruccio Papini
Giuliana LojodiceSchool principal
Amerigo FontaniRodolfo
Pietro de SilvaBartolomeo
Francesco GuzzoVittorino
Raffaella LebboroniElena
Giorgio CantariniGiosué Orefice
Marisa ParedesMadre di Dora
Horst BuchholzDr. Lessing
Claudio AlfonsiAmico Rodolfo
Gil BaroniPrefect

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