◎ Life is beautiful /La Vita è bella
◎ Year 1997
Italian countries
◎ Category comedy/love/plot/war
Speak Italian/German/English
Chinese subtitles
◎IMDB score 8.4/ 10(504 10 votes) Top 250: # 78
◎IMDB link/title/TT 0 1 18799
◎ File format RMVB
◎ Video size 720X384
File size 2CD
◎ Film length 1 18 minutes.
◎ Director roberto benigni roberto benigni.
Starring roberto benigni roberto benigni.
Nicoletta braschi nicoletta braschi
Giustino Durano
Sergio Bini Bastrick
Giuliana Lojodice
Amerigo Fontani
Pietro De Silva
Francesco Guzzo
◎ Jane
win a prize
1999 Oscar for Best Actor, Best Original Music-Drama Score, Best Foreign Language Film.
1999 Best Actor in BAFTA Film Award
1998 Best Film at the European Film Awards
1998 Cannes Film Festival Jury Award
1939, the shadow of World War II enveloped the whole of Italy.
Guido is a young Jew. He looks clumsy in appearance, but he is kind, honest and optimistic in heart. He is full of beautiful yearning for life. He and his good friend Fei Lucho drove an old car from the countryside to the small town of arezzo. His wish is to open his own bookstore in the town and live a comfortable life without competition. Passing a barn tower, Dora, a beautiful young girl, suddenly fell into his arms. There is a yellow honeycomb on the tower, and wasps often harass local residents. Dora tried to kill the people and burned the hornet's nest, but she was stung by a wasp. Guido immediately took a fancy to her and enthusiastically treated her wounds. To show gratitude, Dora sent Guido some eggs and watched him leave meaningfully.
In overcast Italy, the reactionary forces of Nazi became more and more powerful, Mussolini pursued a tough policy of racial discrimination, and Guido's application for opening a bookstore was repeatedly blocked and rejected. The job my good friend paid for is long gone. Due to the pressure of life, Guido had to work as a waiter in a restaurant. He won the favor of customers with sincere, simple, warm and thoughtful service attitude.
Guido accidentally knocked down Dora when riding to work, and the two met again, igniting the flame of love in Guido's heart. He lost no time in expressing his love for Dora.
Dora is a teacher in a school. One day, an inspector from Rome was going to inspect the school. When Guido learned about it, he pretended to be a superintendent and came to inspect Dora's school. The headmaster received him warmly. In order to please Dora and attract her attention, Guido simply jumped on the platform to show his talent as a comedian, which made the students laugh and stunned the principal and teachers.
Guido learned that Dora and her boyfriend Rudolph were going to the theater to see the opera, and he also bought tickets. Guido, who sits downstairs, always stares at Dora in the upstairs box. At first Dora didn't care about Guido's hard pursuit, but because Dora hated Rudolph, she often stayed with Guido. Rudolph was wishful thinking about the engagement party between Concord and Dora. The party happened to be arranged in Guido's hotel. Guido skillfully freed Dora from Rudolph's entanglement, thus winning her heart. Dora fell out with her parents, ran away from home and married Guido.
After the marriage, good things followed, Guido's dream bookstore opened, and they had a lovely son Joshua. Guido often plays games with his son when he is free, and the family lives happily. A few years later, on Joshua's fifth birthday, the Nazis captured Guido and Joshua and forcibly sent them to a Jewish concentration camp. When Dora and Joshua's grandmother came home excitedly, only to find that the building was empty and the house was turned upside down, Dora understood what was happening in front of her. Although she has no Jewish blood, she insists on going to the concentration camp with her son. Dora was imprisoned in a women's prison, and Guido didn't want to cast a tragic shadow on his son's young mind. In the inhuman concentration camp, Guido tried his best to get in touch with his wife in the women's prison and report to Dora that he was safe. At the same time, he wants to protect and take care of young Joshua. He tricked his son into playing a game, and those who abide by the rules of the game can finally get a real tank to go home. The naive and curious son believed Guido's words. How much he wants a tank car! Joshua endured hunger, fear, loneliness and all the bad environment. Guido keeps his son's childlike innocence from being hurt by the game.
When liberation came, one night, the Nazis were preparing to escape. Guido hid his son in an iron cabinet and urged Wan to tell Joshua not to come out. He planned to beat his wife Dora in a women's prison, but the Nazis found out. When the Nazis escorted Guido through Joshua's iron cabinet, he walked optimistically and strode, implying that his son would not come out, but soon he heard a cry.
At dawn, Joshua climbed out of the iron cabinet and stood in the yard. At this moment, a real tank car rumbled past him, and an American soldier got off the car and carried him onto the tank.
◆ Film Review &; be in the background
Roberto benigni is the director, director and actor of this film, and a famous comedian in Italian film industry. He played a very creative role in this film, turning a near-destroyed theme-Nazi persecution of Jews into gold in a whimsical way, and the effect was absolutely amazing. The story happened in a small Italian town before the war. Quito, a Jewish youth in Lotte, met Dora, a beautiful female teacher, several times when he took refuge in his uncle who opened a restaurant. He thought it was a godsend, so he pursued it enthusiastically and finally got a lovely boy. Five years later, when the war broke out, Quito took his children on the train to the concentration camp. Dora followed Guido automatically in order to be with her family, and lied to him that she was playing games in order to protect her children. This kind of treatment shows the cheerful nationality of Italians, and tells a seemingly impossible story with a whimsy with high funny effect, which makes people feel very happy and memorable after reading it. Among them, the script with clever plot arrangement and distinctive protagonist's personality is indispensable, and the wonderful performances of roberto benigni and child stars abound.
background information
About the Second World War, it was a heavy and serious world tragedy. We have seen the poor Jews in Schindler's List and the war scenes in Saving Private Ryan. This kind of movies are mostly movies that pursue truth and make people sad. Life is Beautiful is completely different from previous war movies. It faces this history from another angle. This is a comedy film, and the director also believes that "laughter" and "imagination" are the best medicine to face these helplessness. The film was shown at Cannes Film Festival last year (5 1) and won the jury prize.
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