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Friday 7 February 2014

A Vida é Bela




Original title: La vita é bella
Director: Roberto Benigni
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Year: 1997
Awards: Won 3 Oscars - Best Actor in a Leading Role (Roberto Benigni), Best Music, Best Foreign Language Film
Plot Summary:

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.
Written by Anthony Hughes

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