"Life is Beautiful"

Sunday 5 May 2013

   Hi everyone! Today I will talk to you about a movie, "Life is Beautiful", a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni.

    

   In 1939, Guido, a funny and charismatic Jewish man, comes into Italy looking for work. He starts working as a waiter at a hotel restaurant, under the watchful eye of his uncle Eliseo. 

    Guido meets a school teacher named Dora, who he calls “Princess”, and falls in love with her. However, she is already in a relationship with another man. Dora breaks up with her fiancé to choose Guido. Then they get married and have a son, Giosué.

    On Giosué's fifth birthday, World War II is in full force. Since they are Jewish, the Germans take away Guido, Eliseo and Giosué to a labor camp. Wanting to be with her family, Dora insists she be taken too, but she is housed in the women's side of the camp. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido hides their true situation from him, convincing him that the camp is a complicated game in which Giosue must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points; the first team to reach one thousand points will win a tank.

    I recommend you this film. I've already seen it twice and I loved it. This is a great movie with an incredible and strong story. 

   If you want to know more about the movie, check this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpJQJMLdfjk

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