LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

LIFE  IS BEAUTIFUL

SINOPSIS

a few years before the start of the Second World War, a young man named Guido arrives to a small village in Tuscany with the intention of opening a bookstore. There you will learn to Dora, the fiancee of the fascist Ferruccio, with whom she will marry shall have a son. With the arrival of the war the three shall be interned in a concentration camp where Guido will do the impossible to make believe to his son that the terrible situation that they are suffering is only a game.

In 1997 he was nominated for 12 categories in the David di Donatello Awards, in the end there will only be made with 8 of them, including best film. A year later, in 1998, was nominated for 7 Oscars of which obtained only 3 (best actor, best soundtrack and best film not in the English language). They also won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, the award for best actor at the Baftas, and the award for best foreign film in both the Cesar in the Goya.