Life is Beautiful (jul 17, 1942 – jan 27, 1945)
Description:
Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.The film was partially inspired by the book 'In the End, I Beat Hitler' by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II.
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Date:
jul 17, 1942
jan 27, 1945
~ 2 years and 6 months