Best Foreign Language Film
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also known as La Vita e Bella
Life is Beautiful1997
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Guido is a charming, bumbling Jewish waiter whose colorful imagination and playful spirit help him to woo a beautiful schoolteacher. 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. Guido must now use his imagination again - this time to transform his son's tragic new surroundings into a magical wonderland.
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- Roberto Benigni - Guido
- Nicoletta Braschi - Dora
- Horst Buchholz - Dottor Lessing
- Sergio Bini Bustric - Ferruccio
- Giorgio Cantarini - Giosué
- Giustino Durano - Zio
- Amerigo Fontani - Rodolfo
- Marisa Paredes - Madre di Dora
- Richard Sammel - Ufficiale stanzioncina
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Member Reviews (1)
Great movie a lesson in survival under the most horrible times ,during hitlers persecution of the jewish ,people,