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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Roberto Benigni |
| Stars: |
Nicoletta Braschi |
| Actors: |
Giorgio Cantarini |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Romances · Tear Jerker · Nazis · Holocaust · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
717951007179 |
| Release Date: |
1998 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 56min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Italian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Collector's Edition, 1hr 57min
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (November 09, 1999)
UPC: 717951003089 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: English Subtitled Release, 1hr 56min
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (November 09, 1999)
UPC: 786936091540 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Roberto Benigni |
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Professional Reviews
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(02/??/1999, p.46, Colin MacCabe): "...[A] magnificent film....Real emotional strength..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Buon giorno, principessa!"--Guido (Roberto Benigni) to Dora (Nicoletta Braschi)
"No spiders or Visigoths allowed."--Guido to his son, Giosui (Giorgio Cantarini)
"You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One--if you cry. Two--if you ask to see your mother. Three--if you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!"--Guido to Giosui
"We play the part of the real mean guys who yell."--Guido, supposedly translating a German soldier
"Don't ask for any lollipops. We eat them all."--Guido, still translating a German soldier
"They make buttons and soap out of us."--Giosui to Guido
"Fat, fat, ugly, ugly, all yellow in reality, if you ask me what I am, I answer 'cheep, cheep, cheep.' Walking along I go, 'poo poo.' What am I? Tell me true."--Dr. Lessing (Horst Bucholz) to Guido |
| More Information |
| Details: |
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, Giosui (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> <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 fo... |
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