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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

La Vita è bella

Roberto Benigni


  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 1997
  • Language: Italian
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  • Runtime: 116 min.

Roberto Benigni's Academy Award®-winning film about Guido, a carefree Italian Jew (Benigni, of course) whose fairytale courtship and marriage to his beloved principesa (Nicoletta Braschi) is suddenly, horribly interrupted by the grim reality of the Holocaust was beloved by audiences worldwide, winning the People's Choice Award at TIFF and Academy Awards® for Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film.

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screening times

    • Monday October 25
    • 9:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

Roberto Benigni's Academy Award®-winning film about Guido, a carefree Italian Jew (Benigni, of course) whose fairy-tale courtship and marriage to his beloved principesa (Nicoletta Braschi) is suddenly, horribly interrupted by the grim reality of the Holocaust was beloved by audiences worldwide, winning the People's Choice Award at the Festival and Academy Awards® for Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film. Confined with his young son to a Nazi concentration camp and determined to shield the boy from their desperate reality, Guido pretends that it's all part of an elaborate game. Alternately hilarious and moving, Life Is Beautiful uses humour and sentiment to reveal the strength of the human spirit in the face of unthinkable horror.

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