Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

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04/04/2003
DVD Region
2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
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Film and TV Genre
Drama, General
Video Format
PAL

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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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Actors
Roberto Benigni
Nicoletta Braschi
Horst Buchholz
Marisa Paredes
Lydia Alfonsi
Sergio Bini Bustric
Giorgio Cantarini
Guistino Durano
Director
Roberto Benigni
Label / Studio
Miramax
Run Time (minutes)
122
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
Media Format
DVD-Video
Aspect Ratio
1.85:1
Number of Discs
1
Language
Italian
Film Rating (Australia)
PG
Disc Features
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Film Rating (UK)
PG
Year of release
1998
Tags
Beautiful
Bella
Drama
General
Italian
Life
Subtitled
Vita
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#40931
Cast & Crew
Danilo Donati (Art Director)
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)

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