Life Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) (1997) In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter 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. ??Anthony Hughes Awards: 72 wins & 52 nominations totalBudget: $20,000,000 (estimated)Worldwide Gross: $230,098,753Soundtrack: Marcia Reale ((1831))Roberto BenigniRoberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini1997-12-20 (Italy)tt0118799