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LA VITA E BELLA
In Competition
- Directed by :
- Roberto BENIGNI
- Country:
- ITALY
- Duration:
- 114.00 minutes
- Grand Prix, 1998
Synopsis
Italy 1938 : Guido is in love with Dora who is promised to a fascist bureaucrat. Like in a fairy tale, Guido abducts Dora the very day of her engagement.Five years later, they have had a son : Joshua. The racial laws have been enforced in Italy. Guido is jewish. One day when she returns home, Dora finds her son and her husband missing. They have been deported.
Out of her love for them, Dora gets into the train which is taking them away. In the concentration camp, Guido has only one obsession: to save his son from hell
Credits
- Danilo DONATI - Set Designer
- Roberto BENIGNI - Director
- Roberto BENIGNI - Screenplay
- Vincenzo CERAMI - Screenplay
- Tonino DELLI COLLI - Cinematography
- Nicola PIOVANI - Music
- Simona PAGGI - Film Editor
Actors
The Official Selection 1998
In Competition
- APRILE
- CEUX QUI M'AIMENT PRENDRONT LE TRAIN
- CLAIRE DOLAN
- CORAZON ILUMINADO
- DANCE ME TO MY SONG
- FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
- FESTEN
- FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI
- HENRY FOOL
- IDIOTERNE
- ILLUMINATA
- KHROUSTALIOV, MA VOITURE !
- L'ÉCOLE DE LA CHAIR
- LA CLASSE DE NEIGE
- LA VENDEDORA DE ROSAS
- LA VIE REVEE DES ANGES
- LA VITA E BELLA
- MIA EONIOTITA KE MIA MERA
- MY NAME IS JOE
- THE GENERAL
- THE HOLE
- VELVET GOLDMINE