Life Is Beautiful 1997

8.5/10

Languages:

Italian , French , Spanish , German , Polish , Russian , Brazilian Portuguese

Subtitles:

English , French , Arabic , Spanish , Simplified Chinese , German , Traditional Chinese , Greek , Russian , Turkish , Portuguese , Romanian , Polish

Genres:

Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

Release Date:

1997

Run Time:

1h56m

Maturity Rating:

possibly disturbing content related to the Holocaust

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.