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Life Is Beautiful
1997•116 min•PG-13
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(806,401 votes)8.6/10
PLOT
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter 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.
DIRECTOR
Roberto Benigni
WRITER
Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
CAST
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
