Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
Directed by: Roberto BenigniCast list: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Genres: Romantic / Comedy / Drama /
Runtime: 117 min.
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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.
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Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / children, children’s rights / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / human rights / death and grief / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
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