What a wonderful film..
this is one of the funniest scenes..

I absalutely adored this film.I saw it in Italy last year but I broke my heart crying at the end. It was wonderful how the papa lead his son to believe that they were having a game, even though they were in a concentration camp.... It was fabulous...

I LOVE that movie! It's one of the best Italian movies I've seen.

It was a sad, funny, and hopeful story. I cried my eyes out at the end of the movie.

Great movie.
Actually Benigni's father had spent two years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La vita è bella is based in part
on his father's experiences.

In 1998, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and Benigni personally won the Best
Actor (the first for a male performer and third overall in a non-English speaking role).

I actually like his movie Johnny Stecchino just as much as Life is Beautiful. He plays two rolls.
One a good hearted but not very wordly-wise loser type and the other a tough gangster type.
He plays both rolls like completly different people.

Johnny Stecchino (1991) - Plot summary However, the deal involves Dante going to Sicily where the woman's husband is an
infamous gangster known as Johnny the Toothpick ("stecchino" in Italian). ...
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(Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of
the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and , an estimated 50,000 Russian Prisoners of War and a further
50,000 inmates died there, up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945.

The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division. 60,000 prisoners were found inside,
most of them seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lay around the camp unburied. The scenes that greeted
British troops were described by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who accompanied the troops.