Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)

PG-13 (US) | Italy | Italian, German, English | 116 min
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
8.8

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter-turned-bookseller named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman teacher named Dora. Guido and Dora have a son named Joshua and live happily together until the forced deportation of the town's Jewish population in cattle cars. Dora, while not required to be deported, volunteers to leave with her family, and they are all forced to live in a concentration camp. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a concentration camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

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Best Foreign Language Film

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Best Film not in the English Language

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Release Date

Italy
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1997-12-20
Romania
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1998
Cameroon
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1998-01-02
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Life Is Beautiful
(Original title)
La vida es bella
Argentina
Life Is Beautiful
Australia
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Parent Guide

Sex & Nudity
None
Violence & Gore
Mild
Profanity
None
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Mild
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Moderate