LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1998)

Cast

Plot

Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. 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 help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank. Moving, original and utterly magical, this is a masterpiece of filmmaking. IMAGINE SCHINDLER'S LIST WITH A MORE SLAPSTICK APPROACH!!