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Life Is Beautiful is a production of an Italian comic sensation Roberto Benigni The film was written and directed by Roberto Benigni together with his co writer Vincenzo Cerami The film was inspired by Benigni s father who worked in the German fields during the World War II Benigni featured in the movie as Guido Orefice a loopy happy and lucky Jewish Italian bookshop owner who works to protect his son from the possible internment and horrors that come with the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camp Benigni Vincenzo and Nicoletta 1998 The movie was released in 1997 by Cecchi Gori Distributozione and the first screenplay was in May 1998 The film was first aired on Italian Television station RAI in October 2001 The film was set in Italy an intensely romantic country to show the power of passion the beauty of love and the need of protection from harm and possible hate A good number of actors took part in life is beautiful Roberto Benigni acted as Guide Orifice Nicoletta Braschi as Dora Marisa Parades as Doras Mother and Giorgio Cantarini as Giosue Lydia Alfonsi cast as Guicciardini Giustino Durano as Uncle Zio Eliseo and Giuliana Lojodice as the Headmistress Other actors and actresses were Gil Baroni as the Perfect Sergio Bini Bustic as Ferruccio and Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing
