Life Is Beautiful
- Released
- 04/04/2003
- Film and TV Genre
- Drama, General
- Video Format
- PAL
- DVD Region
- 2 (will only play on Region 2 and Multi-Region DVD players)
Description
Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, however, is turned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and their young son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic, the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. (A similar work--THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, a Jerry Lewis film about a comedian in a concentration camp--turned out to be a disaster two decades earlier.) Although LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did provoke some controversy, many people found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.
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Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Roberto Benigni
- Label / Studio
- Miramax
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- Award
- OSCAR - Best Actor In A Leading Role 1998
- OSCAR - Best Actor In A Leading Role 1998- Roberto Benigni
- OSCAR - Best Foreign Film 1999
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Italian
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - Italian
- PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 - Italian
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian
- Disc Features
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
- Tags
- Year of release
- 1998
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Rating (Australia)
- PG
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (UK)
- PG
- Run Time (minutes)
- 122
- Cast & Crew
- Nicola Piovani (Composer)
- Danilo Donati (Costume Designer)
- Tonino Delli Colli (Director of Photography)
- Simona Paggi (Editor)
- Elda Ferri (Producer)
- Gianluigi Braschi (Producer)
- Danilo Donati (Production Designer)
- Roberto Benigni (Screenwriter)
- Vincenzo Cerami (Screenwriter)
- Danilo Donati (Art Director)
