---
title: 'Life Is Beautiful (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Roberto Benigni'
released: '1997-12-20'
runtime_minutes: 116
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-is-beautiful-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Life Is Beautiful (1997)

1997 · PG-13 · 116 min · Drama, Comedy · Italy

Original title: La vita è bella

## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Roberto Benigni](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-benigni)
- **Screenplay:** [Roberto Benigni](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-benigni), [Vincenzo Cerami](https://cinepixo.com/people/vincenzo-cerami)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Nicola Piovani](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicola-piovani)
- **Producer:** [Elda Ferri](https://cinepixo.com/people/elda-ferri), [Gianluigi Braschi](https://cinepixo.com/people/gianluigi-braschi)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tonino Delli Colli](https://cinepixo.com/people/tonino-delli-colli)
- **Editor:** [Simona Paggi](https://cinepixo.com/people/simona-paggi)

## Cast

- [Marisa Paredes](https://cinepixo.com/people/marisa-paredes) as Dora's mother
- [Alfiero Falomi](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfiero-falomi) as Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
- [Richard Sammel](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-sammel) as Waffen-SS Officer
- [Raffaella Lebboroni](https://cinepixo.com/people/raffaella-lebboroni) as Elena
- [Hannes Hellmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/hannes-hellmann)
- [Sergio Bustric](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergio-bustric) as Ferrucio Papini
- [Roberto Benigni](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-benigni) as Guido Orefice
- [Giuliana Lojodice](https://cinepixo.com/people/giuliana-lojodice) as the Headmistress
- [Amerigo Fontani](https://cinepixo.com/people/amerigo-fontani) as Rodolfo
- [Giustino Durano](https://cinepixo.com/people/giustino-durano) as Eliseo Orefice
- [Horst Buchholz](https://cinepixo.com/people/horst-buchholz) as Doctor Lessing
- [Pietro De Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/pietro-de-silva)
- [Lydia Alfonsi](https://cinepixo.com/people/lydia-alfonsi) as Guicciardini
- [Nicoletta Braschi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicoletta-braschi) as Dora Orefice
- [Verena Buratti](https://cinepixo.com/people/verena-buratti)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-is-beautiful-1997
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