Life Is Beautiful

La vida es bella / La vita è bella

Italian audio, Spanish subtitles · Current release

Part I In 1939, in Fascist Italy, young, comical and sharp Italian Jew Guido Orefice arrives to work in Arezzo, Tuscany, with his uncle Eliseo in a hotel restaurant. He falls in love with Dora, a Gentile young woman. Later, Guido sees her again in the city where she is a teacher and set to be engaged to Rodolfo, a rich but arrogant local government official with whom he regularly clashes. Guido sets up many "coincidental" incidents to show his interest in Dora.

Director

Roberto Benigni

Starring

Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami, Guido Orefice, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Amerigo Fontani

Not in English. Italian audio, spanish subtitles.