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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, Giosué (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.
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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Region 1
Keep Case
Collectors Edition
Letterbox -
1.85
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby 5.1 Digital - English
Dolby 5.1 Digital - Italian
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: Making Life Beautiful
Trailers:
1. Theatrical Trailer
2. TV Spots
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- Winner, 1998 Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner, 1998 Cannes: Jury Prize
- Winner, 1998 Academy Awards: Best Actor - Roberto Benigni
- Winner, 1998 Academy Awards: Best Original Score - Nicola Piovani
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- Recording Mode - Dolby Surround AC-3
- Collector's Edition
- Closed Captioned
- Color - Color
- Widescreen
- Additional Information - Collector's Edition
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