Life Is Beautiful
Country: Italy
Company: Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori - C.E.I.A.D., Melampo Cinematografica
Keywords: dying and death, bookshop, love of one's life, nazi, self sacrifice, loss of loved one, italy, riddle, mass murder, concentration camp, fascism, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, deportation, jew persecution, story teller, riding a bicycle, national socialism, dark comedy, charade, concentration camp prisoner, romantic comedy, reflective, dark, war, nazi germany, admiring

Life Is Beautiful

La vita è bella

Release Date: 12/20/1997

Acting

  • Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni
    Guido
  • Nicoletta Braschi
    Nicoletta Braschi
    Dora
  • Giorgio Cantarini
    Giorgio Cantarini
    Giosué
  • Giustino Durano
    Giustino Durano
    Zio
  • Sergio Bini Bustric
    Sergio Bini Bustric
    Ferruccio
  • Marisa Paredes
    Marisa Paredes
    Madre di Dora
  • Horst Buchholz
    Horst Buchholz
    Dottore Lessing
  • Lidia Alfonsi
    Lidia Alfonsi
    Signora Guicciardini
  • Giuliana Lojodice
    Giuliana Lojodice
    Direttrice Didattica
  • Amerigo Fontani
    Amerigo Fontani
    Rodolfo
  • Pietro De Silva
    Pietro De Silva
    Bartolomeo
  • Francesco Guzzo
    Francesco Guzzo
    Vittorino
  • Raffaella Lebboroni
    Raffaella Lebboroni
    Elena
  • Claudio Alfonsi
    Claudio Alfonsi
    Amico Rodolfo
  • Massimo Bianchi
    Massimo Bianchi
    Uomo della chiave
  • Verena Buratti
    Verena Buratti
    German Auxilliary
  • Giancarlo Cosentino
    Giancarlo Cosentino
    Cameriere Ernesto
  • Aaron Craig
    Aaron Craig
    Carrista USA
  • Hannes Hellmann
    Hannes Hellmann
    German Corporal
  • Franco Mescolini
    Franco Mescolini
    Ispettore Pubblica Istruzione
  • Antonio Prester
    Antonio Prester
    Bruno
  • Gina Rovere
    Gina Rovere
    Dora's Maid
  • Massimo Salvianti
    Massimo Salvianti
    Poliziotto cartolibreria
  • Richard Sammel
    Richard Sammel
    German Lieutenant at Station
  • Andrea Tidona
    Andrea Tidona
    Grand Hotel Doorman
  • Omero Antonutti
    Omero Antonutti
    Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
  • Adelaide Alaïs
    Adelaide Alaïs
    German Auxilliary (uncredited)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Trailer / Review movie

Produced By: Gianluigi Braschi, Elda Ferri, Mario Cotone, Pietro Sassaroli, Tullio Lullo, Olivia Sleiter, Nando Nibbi, Marco Albertini, Ettore Musco, Franco Fantini, Shaila Rubin, Attilio Viti
Directed By: Gianni Arduini, Giovanni Marino, Luigi Spoletini, Daniele Cama, Giorgia Onofri
Crew: Roberto Benigni, Gianluigi Braschi, Elda Ferri, Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, Tonino Delli Colli, Simona Paggi, Nicola Piovani, Danilo Donati, Danilo Donati, Giovanni Corridori, Tullio Morganti, Benni Atria, Silvia Moraes, Roberto Brega, Mario Cotone, Pietro Sassaroli, Tullio Lullo, Olivia Sleiter, Nando Nibbi, Marco Albertini, Ettore Musco, Franco Fantini, Salvatore Bognanni, Marco Cuzzupoli, Sergio Strizzi, Ettore Mancini, Benni Atria, Maddalena Colombo, Maurizio Sabatini, Edoardo Di Iorio, Luigi Urbani, Roberto Magagnini, Walter Cossu, Enrico Iacoponi, Federico Laurenti, Martina Cossu, Giusy Bovino, Fabio Lucchetti, Maria Pia Crapanzano, Carlo Vinciguerra, Aldo Colanzi, Shaila Rubin, Leda Lojodice, Pasquale Cuzzupoli, Alberto Doni, Claudio Chiossi, Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni, Attilio Viti

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