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Life Is Beautiful (Blu-ray, 2020)

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Italian treasure Roberto Benigni is Guido, a charming, bumbling Jewish waiter whose colourful imagination and playful spirit help him to woo a beautiful schoolteacher (Nicoletta Braschi). The couple marries and has a young son, but before long their idyllic world is threatened by Nazi soldiers who force the family into a concentration camp.

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Conjuring keys and hats out of thin air, Guido (Roberto Benigni), a clever Jewish-Italian waiter, successfully courts Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a beautiful local woman, in Fascist pre-WWII Italy. His life, however, is turned upside down a few years later when he, Dora, and their young son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini), are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is just an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank.<BR>For years the box-office champ in Italy and the country's most beloved slapstick comic, the Chaplinesque Benigni took a huge risk with LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Many people worried that the film would be as offensive as plopping a cartoon character in Auschwitz. (A similar work--THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, a Jerry Lewis film about a comedian in a concentration camp--turned out to be a disaster two decades earlier.) Although LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL did provoke some controversy, many people found the film to be a poignant, tragicomic story that profoundly reaffirmed the humanity of concentration camp victims. The film became the highest grossing foreign language film in the U.S. and established Benigni as an international star.

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ProducerGianluigi Braschi, Elda Ferri

EAN5056453200165

eBay Product ID (ePID)20048558711

Product Key Features

ActorNicoletta Braschi, Marisa Paredes, Roberto Benigni, Guistino Durano, Lydia Alfonsi, Sergio Bini Bustric, Giorgio Cantarini, Horst Buchholz

Film/TV TitleLife Is Beautiful

DirectorRoberto Benigni

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2020

LanguageItalian

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

CertificatePG

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureItaly

ComposerNicola Piovani

Production DesignerDanilo Donati

ReviewsPremiere - ...[Benigni] puts a serious spin on his comic genius..., Entertainment Weekly - ...[Benigni] succeeds, to an extraordinary degree, in reviving the neo-Technicolor lushness and affectionate screwball rhythms of postwar Hollywood....A delicate romance spiked with antifascist farce..., New York Times - ...Mr. Benigni effectively creates a situation in which comedy is courage. And he draws from this an unpretentious, enormously likable film that plays with history both seriously and mischievously..., Sight and Sound - ...[A] magnificent film....Real emotional strength...

AwardsBest Actor In A Leading Role 1998 - Roberto Benigni, Best Foreign Film 1999 -

Art DirectorDanilo Donati

ScreenwriterVincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni

Costume DesignerDanilo Donati

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleLife Is Beautiful

EditorSimona Paggi

Director of PhotographyTonino Delli Colli