
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
overview : 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.
Genres : Comedy, Drama
Tags : italy, riddle, loss of loved one, bookshop, self sacrifice, mass murder, concentration camp, fascism, world war ii, love of one's life, deportation, jew persecution, fantasy, nazi, national socialism, charade, riding a bicycle, story teller, concentration camp prisoner, dying and death
CAST
Roberto BenigniGuido Orefice
Nicoletta BraschiDora
Giorgio CantariniGiosué Orefice
Giustino DuranoEliseo Orefice
Amerigo FontaniRodolfo
Sergio Bini BustricFerruccio
Lidia AlfonsiSignora Guicciardini
Horst BuchholzDottore Lessing
Pietro De SilvaBartolomeo
Marisa ParedesMadre di Dora
Giuliana LojodiceDirettrice
Francesco GuzzoVittorino
Adelaide AlaïsGerman Auxilliary
Verena BurattiGerman Auxilliary
Hannes HellmannGerman Corporal
Wolfgang HillingerGerman Major at Party