Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Original Title: La vita è bella
Comedy
Drama
8.4 (13,374 votes)
1h 56m
Overview
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Details
- Director
- Roberto Benigni
- Writer
- Roberto Benigni
- Original Language
- Italian
- Budget
- $20,000,000
Cast
Amerigo Fontani
Giorgio Cantarini
Giuliana Lojodice
Giustino Durano
Horst Buchholz
Lidia Alfonsi
Marisa Paredes
Nicoletta Braschi
Roberto Benigni
Sergio Bini Bustric
Keywords
admiring
bookshop
charade
concentration camp
concentration camp prisoner
dark
dark comedy
deportation
dying and death
fascism
holocaust (shoah)
italy
jew persecution
loss of loved one
love of one's life
mass murder
national socialism
nazi
nazi germany
reflective
riddle
riding a bicycle
romcom
self sacrifice
story teller
war
world war ii
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