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Life Is Beautiful (1997)  link to Life Is Beautiful on IMDb  

Number: 1183

cover Life Is Beautiful

IMDb Rating:
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8.6/10 (481.2K votes)

Also known as: Vita è bella, La (International)

Country: Italy, 116 minutes

Spoken languages: English, German, Italian

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director(s): Roberto Benigni

Storyline:
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:

Roberto Benigni Guido
Nicoletta Braschi Dora
Giorgio Cantarini Giosué
Marisa Paredes Madre di Dora
Horst Buchholz Dottor Lessing

Medium: Original DVD, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Subtitles: English, Russian, Cantonese

Location: Drawer 9 Slot 7

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1