La vita è bella [videorecording] = Life is beautiful / Miramax Films ; Cecchi Gori Group ; Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori presentano una produzione Melampo Cinematografica ; soggetto e sceneggiatura di Vincenzo Cerami e Roberto Benigni ; prodotto da Elda Ferri e Gianluigi Braschi ; regia di Roberto Benigni

Additional Titles:: Life is beautiful
Published:: [Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment, [1999]
Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Copyright Date:: ©1997
Edition:: Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Description:: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators:: Cerami, Vincenzo, 1940-2013, Benigni, Roberto, Braschi, Nicoletta, 1960-, Durano, Giustino, 1923-, Bustric, Sergio, Alfonsi, Lydia, Cantarini, Giorgio, Buchholz, Horst, 1933-2003, Paredes, Marisa, 1946-, Piovani, Nicola, Miramax Films, Cecchi Gori Group (Firm), Melampo cinematografica, Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

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Series:

Miramax collector's series

Language Note:

In Italian, Italian with English subtitles, or English.
Closed captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Summary:

A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.

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ISBN:

0788816209

Audience Notes:

Rated PG-13.

Note:

Originally released as motion picture in 1997.
Includes theatrical trailer, featurette, and Academy Award TV commercials.

Creation/Production Credits Note:

Director of photography, Tonino Delli Colli; film editor, Simona Paggi; music, Nicola Piovani.

Participant/Performer Note:

Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bustric, Lydia Alfonsi, Giorgio Cantarini, Horst Buchholz, Marisa Paredes.

Technical Details:

DVD; region 1; NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital; widescreen presentation.

Terms of Use and Reproduction:

No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.

Source of Acquisition:

Harrisburg copy: Purchased with funds from the Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg; 20067.
Arts & Humanities copy 2: Purchased with funds from the Ash Family Libraries Endowment in Jewish Studies; 20067.
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2013

Awards:

1998 Academy Awards: Best actor (Benigni), Best foreign language film, Best dramatic score.

Endowment Note:

Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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