Films Directed by Roberto Benigni (Study Guide) - Life Is Beautiful, the Monster, the Tiger and the Snow, Pinocchio, Johnny Stecchino (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Life Is Beautiful, the Monster, the Tiger and the Snow, Pinocchio, Johnny Stecchino, the Little Devil. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Life Is Beautiful (Italian: ) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp. At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the film won both the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The first half of the movie is a whimsical, romantic comedy and often slapstick. Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), a young Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo where he plans to set up a bookstore, taking a job in the interim as a waiter at his uncle's hotel. He lives with his uncle Eliseo. Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances a local school teacher Dora (portrayed by Benigni's actual wife Nicoletta Braschi). Dora, however comes from a wealthy, aristocratic Italian (non-Jewish) family. Dora's mother wants her to marry a well-to-do civil servant, but Dora falls instead for Guido. Guido ends up stealing her away at her engagement, from her aristocratic but arrogant fiance. Several years pass in which Guido and Dora marry and have a son, Giosue' (Italian equivalent of Joshua) (Giorgio Cantarini). Dora and her mother are estranged due to the unequal marriage until a reconciliation takes place just prior to Giosue's fourth birthday. In the second half, World War II enters the stage. Guido, Uncle Eliseo, and Giosue' are taken to a concentration camp on Giosue's b...http: //booksllc.net/?id=142463