24 – Life is Beautiful – 1997

Life is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film, written, directed, and starring Roberto Benigni. Benigni plays the role of Guido Orefice, an Italian jewish bookshop owner, who must use his imagination to protect his young son from the horrors of a nazi concentration camp. The story is partially based on the real experience of Rubino Romeo Salmoni, a survivor of the holocaust who tells his experience in the book ‘In the end, I beat Hitler’ and on the experience of Benigni’s own father, who spent two years in a concentration camp during the Second World War. The film was a commercial success and among critics internationally.

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