Vita è bella, La (1997)

Regisseur:

Roberto Benigni

Drehbuchautoren:

Vincenzo Cerami (story) &
Roberto Benigni (story)

Premierendatum:

23. Oktober 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Romanze | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.

Plot:

A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

Plot Keywords:

Fascist | Nazi Retaliation | Regime | Claim In Title | Racial Slur

Filmpreise:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 27 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

The Best Movie I've seen for a long long time

Besetzung

Roberto Benigni	...	Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi	...	Dora
Giorgio Cantarini	...	Giosué Orefice
Giustino Durano	...	Eliseo Orefice
Sergio Bini Bustric	...	Ferruccio Papini (as Sergio Bustric)
Marisa Paredes	...	Madre di Dora
Horst Buchholz	...	Doctor Lessing (as Horst Bucholz)
Lidia Alfonsi	...	Guicciardini
Giuliana Lojodice	...	School Principal
Amerigo Fontani	...	Rodolfo
Pietro De Silva	...	Bartolomeo
Francesco Guzzo	...	Vittorino
Raffaella Lebboroni	...	Elena
Claudio Alfonsi	...	Amico Rodolfo
Gil Baroni	...	Prefect

Alternativ:

Life Is Beautiful (USA)
Leben ist schön, Das (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for holocaust-related thematic elements.

Länge:

116 Min | USA:118 Min (English dubbed version)

Produktionsland:

Italy

Sprache:

Italienisch | Deutsch | Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Ireland:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Brazil:Livre | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:6 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Italy:T | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:M | Norway:7 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Drehorte:

Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy

Firma:

Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica

Dies und das:

In Italian, the answer to the "Snow White" riddle is seven "minuti"

• a play on words between "minutes" and "dwarves".

Pannen:

Crew oder Equipment sichtbar: When Dora stands up on her bed in the barracks and goes to the window to hear the music her husband played on a phonograph, some technical cable and the shadow of the crew can be seen on the left side of the screen.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Beautiful that way

The Best Movie I've seen for a long long time

I am surprised about the negative comments that some people made on this web-page. I can see how some people might not experience the same kind of uplift or joy that most of us lived through when seeing the movie. But that some viewers felt insulted and betrayed because the movie did not depict "reality" as it really was or is, is not fair.

I must concur with my fellow proponents of the movie -- it was a great and very satisfying movie. It provided me with something that everyone in one or another shape or form needs -- Hope. The movie showed the cruelty of life and yet managed to shed some light and insight into the beauty of love and life in general.

I urge anyone who has not seen La Vita è bella to go out there and watch it. If we all take with us just little bit of that hope and love that this movie is trying to convey; this world would be a much better place.

Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoyed or will enjoy the movie as much as I did.