Life Is Beautiful
Vita è bella, La

Comedy, Drama, War

Roberto Benigni	Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi	Dora
Giorgio Cantarini	Giosué Orefice
Giustino Durano	Eliseo Orefice
Sergio Bini Bustric	Ferruccio Papini
Marisa Paredes	Madre di Dora
Horst Buchholz	Doctor Lessing
Lidia Alfonsi	Guicciardini
Giuliana Lojodice	School Principal
Amerigo Fontani	Rodolfo
Claudio Alfonsi
Gil Baroni
Massimo Bianchi

Director	Roberto Benigni
Producer	Gianluigi Braschi; Mario Cotone
Writer	Vincenzo Cerami; Roberto Benigni

A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

In this poignant tragicomedy, a clever Jewish-Italian waiter named Guido (Roberto Benigni, who won an Oscar for his role) is sent to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, along with his wife (Nicoletta Braschi) and their young son (Giorgio Cantarini). Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. Benigni also directed.