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Life Is Beautiful| Director: | Roberto Benigni | | Writers: | Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni | | Miramax; PG-13; 122 minutes | | Release: | 10/98 | | Cast: | Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano and Sergio Bustric | | In Italian with English subtitles |
One of Italy's most endeared comic actors, Roberto Benigni, tackles a most unpalatable subject, the Holocaust, and courageously treats it with wit. Guido (Benigni), a waiter in Fascist Italy, woos a wealthy beauty (Braschi) away from her fiancé, who's more economically suitable. Jump ahead five years and they're married with a son. Guido uses fibs and tall tales to shelter his son from the vile anti-Semitism and in doing so, stands up to the forces bent on demoralizing him.
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