Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Directors

Roberto Benigni

Cast

Alfiero Falomi, Amerigo Fontani, Andrea Tidona, Gina Rovere, Giorgio Cantarini, Giuliana Lojodice, Giustino Durano, Hannes Hellmann, Horst Buchholz, Lydia Alfonsi, Marisa Paredes, Nicoletta Braschi, Omero Antonutti, Pietro De Silva, Raffaella Lebboroni, Richard Sammel, Roberto Benigni, Sergio Bustric, Verena Buratti

The story

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.

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