Roberto Benigni	Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi	Dora
Giustino Durano	Eliseo Orefice
Lidia Alfonsi	Guicciardini
Giorgio Cantarini	Giosué Orefice
Sergio Bini Bustric	Ferruccio Papini
Marisa Paredes	Madre di Dora
Giuliana Lojodice	School principal
Horst Buchholz	Dr. Lessing
Amerigo Fontani	Rodolfo

Director	Roberto Benigni
Producer	Gianluigi Braschi Elda Ferri
Writer	Roberto Benigni Vincenzo Cerami
Cinematography	Tonino Delli Colli
Musician	Nicola Piovani

"La Vita e bella" or "Life is beautiful" is the extraordinary tale of Guido (Roberto Benigni), a Jewish Italian bookkeeper and life-enthusiast who meets a beautiful young woman, marries her and have a son with the sole aim to live a happy uneventful life. Sadly, this movie is set in the late 1930s and the Nazi regime soon takes over. Being Jewish, Guido and his family are sent to separate concentration camps: the wife to a women's camp and Guido and his son to a men's camp. Guido maintains his unbelievable appetite for life and incredible optimism, and makes his son believe that their incarceration and the privations they endure are nothing but a game. Despite the cruelty of their situation, Guido and his son will actually maintain a happy and joyful relationship, obliterating anything else.

Edition Details Audience Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance) Country Italy Language Italian Distributor Miramax Home Video Edition Special Edition Barcode 717951003089 Region Region 1 Release Date 11/9/1999 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.85:1) Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Italian] Layers Single Side, Single Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features "Making Life Beautiful" Featurette Academy Award TV Commercials Theatrical Trailer

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