La Vita è Bella
1997, 116 minutes
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.(IMDB)
Credits
- Themes
- War and armed conflict
- Suitable for
- havo/vwo - onderbouw
vmbo b/k - leerjaar 1 & 2
vmbo t - leerjaar 1 & 2 - Director
- Roberto Benigni
- Country of production
- Italy
- Type
- Fiction
- Duration
- 116 minutes
- Year
- 1997
- Age rating
- 12 angst