Life Is Beautiful

Updated June 26, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
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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