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Life Is Beautiful (1997)

MMR 4.5/5
Review Published 15-11-2025

Overview

4.5/5
Summary
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.
Original title
La vita è bella
Year
1997
Released
12-02-1999
Runtime
116 min
MPAA Rating
PG-13
8.6
Metascore
58