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Life Is Beautiful

Name: Life Is Beautiful
Released: 1997
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Rating: 58

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58 Metascore
1997
1 hr 56 mins
Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure
PG-13

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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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Roberto Benigni

Guido

Nicoletta Braschi

Dora

Giorgio Cantarini

Giosué

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Awards

1999 - Oscar - Best Picture - nominated
1999 - Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role - winner
1999 - Oscar - Best Director - nominated
1999 - Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - nominated

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