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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