• Director: Roberto Benigni
  • Release Year: 1997
  • Production Country: Italy
  • Language: Italian, German, English

La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)

Description

Guido's imagination and sense of humor win him the lovely Dora as his wife, despite the fact that he is Jewish and she is not. Then Guido and their son are sent to a concentration camp, and Guido's imagination becomes the only thing standing between the horrors of war and his son's understanding of self, life, and love.

Themes

World War II (1939 – 1945), Holocaust (Jewish), Concentration camps, Death camps, Anti-Semitism, Survivors, Genocide, Third Reich (1933 – 1945), Naziism, Family relationships, Childhood, Children in war, Kingdom of Italy (1861 – 1946), Humor