Life Is Beautiful
La vita è bella
1997
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 71st Academy Awards
- Director:
- Roberto Benigni
- Studio:
- Melampo Cinematografica
- Starring:
- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz
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In 1939, in Fascist Italy, young Italian Jew Guido Orefice arrives to work in Arezzo, Tuscany, with his uncle Eliseo in a hotel restaurant. He is comical and sharp, and falls in love with the gentile girl Dora. Later, Guido sees her again in the city where she is a teacher and set to be engaged to Rodolfo, a rich but arrogant local government official with whom he regularly clashes.