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*** Life Is Beautiful NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Roberto Benigni Nicoletta Braschi Italy ***
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Brand new, official studio-released DVD of this great film, imported from United Kingdom ( La Vita � bella )
This is a PAL, Region 2 DVD.
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FILM DETAILS
Original Title: La Vita � bella
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Goya Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards


Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )


Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
111 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access


Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
Country: Italy ( Region: Italy, Greece )


Directed By:
Roberto Benigni


Written By:
Vincenzo Cerami and
Roberto Benigni


Actors:
Roberto Benigni ..... Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi ..... Dora
Giustino Durano ..... Eliseo Orefice
Lidia Alfonsi ..... Guicciardini
Sergio Bini Bustric ..... Ferruccio Papini (as Sergio Bustric)
Giuliana Lojodice ..... School principal
Amerigo Fontani ..... Rodolfo
Pietro De Silva ..... Bartolomeo
Francesco Guzzo ..... Vittorino
Raffaella Lebboroni ..... Elena
Giorgio Cantarini ..... Giosu� Orefice
Marisa Paredes ..... Madre di Dora
Horst Buchholz ..... Dr. Lessing (as Horst Bucholz)
Claudio Alfonsi ..... Amico Rodolfo
Gil Baroni ..... Prefect


Synopsis:
In 1939, Jewish-Italian Guido Orefice comes into Arezzo, Italy, ultimately to open a book store. In the meantime, he will work as a waiter at the hotel restaurant where his Uncle Eliseo is the ma�tre d'. In town, he meets a school teacher named Dora, who he calls Princess and who comes from a wealthy Italian family. For him, it's love at first sight. Despite she already being in a relationship with another man, Guido ultimately sweeps her off her feet. They get married and have a son they name Giosu�. On Giosu�'s fifth birthday, World War II is in full force. Since they are Jewish, the Germans take away Guido, Eliseo and Giosu� to a labor camp. Wanting to be with her family, Dora insists she be taken too, but she is housed in the women's side of the camp. To protect Giosu� from the horror of what is happening to them, Guido tells him that they are playing a game, certain actions which garner points, other actions which take points away or disqualify one from the game. The first to reach 1,000 points wins the prize of a real tank. Guido's primary goal is to keep Giosu� safe at all cost, while he tries to figure out a way to get his family out of the camp and keep the Germans at bay from learning what he is doing with Giosu�.

It's 1939. The ebullient, playful Guido comes to town. He works as a waiter under the watchful eye of his uncle, an elegant man who is a Jew. Guido falls for Dora, a schoolteacher, whom he calls 'princess' and courts by popping up at unexpected times. She dumps her fianc� to choose Guido. The film jumps ahead to the war's last months. Nora and Guido have a child, Giosu�, and when Guido and the lad are shipped to a concentration camp, Dora voluntarily follows. Although the men and women in the camp are separated and a child is in mortal peril, Guido finds ways to communicate with Dora, to hide Giosu�, and to convince the boy this is an elaborate game, a special contest to win a tank.

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
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