Screenplay Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami
Director Roberto Benigni
Life Is Beautiful
Original Title: La vita è bella
Tagline: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
Release Date: 1997-12-20
Duration: 116 minutes
Synopsis
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.
Casting
- Roberto BenigniGuido
- Giorgio CantariniGiosué
- Horst BuchholzDottore Lessing
- Richard SammelGerman Lieutenant at Station
- Nicoletta BraschiDora
- Sergio Bini BustricFerruccio
- Amerigo FontaniRodolfo
- Raffaella LebboroniElena
- Marisa ParedesMadre di Dora
- Omero AntonuttiNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
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