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Life is Beautiful
Original Title
La Vita è Bella- Director: Roberto Benigni
- Writer: Vincenzo Cerami; Roberto Benigni
- Producer: Gianluigi Braschi; Mario Cotone
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A true wonder of a film.
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The(ir) Blurb...
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 & Characters
Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice;
Nicoletta Braschi as Dora;
Giorgio Cantarini as Giosue Orefice;
Giustino Durano as Eliseo Orefice;
Sergio Bini Bustric as Ferruccio Papini;
Marisa Paredes as Madre di Dora;
Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing;
Lidia Alfonsi as Guicciardini;
Giuliana Lojodice as School Principal;
Amerigo Fontani as Rodolfo;
Pietro De Silva as Bartolomeo;
Francesco Guzzo as Vittorino;
Raffaella Lebboroni as Elena;
Claudio Alfonsi as Amico Rodolfo;
Gil Baroni as Prefect