[Program title] Conte et Raconte Ⅱ
[Film title] LA VITA E BELLA
[Date] 2010.4.3-5.29
[Screen time] 1hr57min
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(1997／Italy／Color／117min／35mm／Italian with Japanese caption)
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Lydia Alfonsi
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Produced by: Mario Cotone, Elda Ferri, Gianluigi Braschi
Director of Photography: Tonino Delli Colli
Music by: Nicola Piovani
Production Designer: Danilo Donati
Distributor: Miramax Films
(c) 1998 MIRAMAX FILM CORP.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Story
In 1939, Guido, an Italian Jew, falls in love with Dora, who isn’t Jewish. He woos her away from the Fascist official she has been dating, and they get married. Their son Giosue grows up among growing anti-Semitism. As the war progresses, Guido and Giosue are arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Dora goes too, determined not to separate the family. In the midst of the horrors of the camp, Guido protects his son by pretending that survival in the concentration camp is an elaborate game with which Giosue must play along or be sent home.
Roberto Benigni
(1952 ～)
Born in Tuscany. In 70’s, he started as stand-up comedian and writer. Benigni started his own successful career as an actor-writer-director with a collection of four comic sketches entitled “Tu Mi Turbi/You Disturb Me” (1983). This film also marked the first of his many screen collaborations with actress Nicoletta Braschi. (The pair married in December 1991.)
In the US,A Jim Jarmusch has been his primary helmer, featuring him as a cheerful, jailed Italian tourist in New Orleans in “Down by Law” (1986), a talkative Roman cabbie in “Night on Earth” (1991) and half the cast (opposite comedian Steven Wright) of “Coffee and Cigarettes” (1986), a six-minute comedy short which Benigni co-wrote with Jarmusch and Wright.
Benigni’s successful career in his native Italy skyrocketed in the 1990s with two wildly successful comedies about mistaken identity: “Johnny Stecchino” (1991)
In 1998 he won a Academy award for Best Actor in “LA VITA E BELLA/Life is beautiful”.The film proved a critical and art-house hit, becoming the highest-grossing foreign film and earning a record seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture, Best Foreign-Language Film, and three for Benigni for his acting, direction and as co-scenarist, the most for a non-English-language movie.