La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)

Director: Roberto Benigni
Writers: Vincenzo Cerami (story) &
Roberto Benigni (story)
Release Date: 12 February 1999 (UK)
Language: Italian

A must-see heart-warming comedy about life in Italy before and during 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 rise of facism in Italy.