<P> Life Is Beautiful ( Italian : La vita è bella ( la ˈviːta ɛ bˈbɛlla ) ) is a 1997 Italian comedy - drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni , who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami . Benigni plays Guido Orefice , a Jewish Italian book shop owner , who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp . The film was partially inspired by the book In the End , I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni 's father , who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II . </P>
<P> Life Is Beautiful ( Italian : La vita è bella ( la ˈviːta ɛ bˈbɛlla ) ) is a 1997 Italian comedy - drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni , who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami . Benigni plays Guido Orefice , a Jewish Italian book shop owner , who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp . The film was partially inspired by the book In the End , I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni 's father , who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II . </P>
who is the director of life is beautiful
who is the director of life is beautiful
Vincenzo Cerami
Vincenzo Cerami