The film was partially inspired by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II.
Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. La Vita E Bella = Life is beautiful, Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami His clowning may be their only hope of survival.
In the darkest of hours, Guido desperately falls back upon his comedic gift, to try to shield his son from the abysmal fate confronting them. Begging to be sent with them, Dora is instead confined in an adjoining all-female camp. For all Guido's sunny disposition, he cannot ignore the fact that anti-Semitism has become iron law, and he and Giosue are sent to a concentration camp. But the shadow of bigotry threatens to fall across their happiness.ġ945: Guido and Dora are married, with a son, Giosue. Nevertheless, Dora is wooed and won by Guido's clownish charm. He meets and is smitten by schoolteacher Dora, a gentile but she is already engaged, to a local Fascisto. Romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving.' Chicago Tribuneġ939: Guido, an Italian Jew, comes to a Tuscan town in search of his fortune. Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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