| Life Is Beautiful | |
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| Directed by | Roberto Benigni |
| Written by | Roberto Benigni Vincenzo Cerami |
| Produced by | Gianluigi Braschi Elda Ferri |
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| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Edited by | Simona Paggi |
| Music by | Nicola Piovani |
Production company | Melampo Cinematografica |
| Distributed by | Cecchi Gori Group (Italy) Miramax Films (International) |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Budget | Lit. 15 billion (~ 12.8 million €) |
| Box office | $230.1 million |
Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella, it) is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama movie directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the movie with Vincenzo Cerami..
Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who uses his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. The movie was partly inspired by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.
The movie won three Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor for Benigni, the first for a male non-English-language role.
