Life Is Beautiful (1997) is a heartwarming Italian comedy-drama about the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. Set in World War II Italy, the film follows the story of Guido, a Jewish bookshop owner, and his son, Giosué
Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. The film was partially inspired by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.