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Roberto Benigni: Director
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Alternately harrowing and funny, this Oscar-winning Holocaust story features writer/director/star Roberto Benigni as a Jewish innocent living in a small Italian village with his wife and son in 1939. When father and son are sent to a concentration camp, Benigni uses games and humor to shield the boy from the surrounding horrors. Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini ... star. 116 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English; "making of" featurette; TV spots; theatrical trailer. In Italian with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.
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Benigni with his vivid imagination was still not clear as to where his life would lead him. When he was into his teens, he discovered the magic of the celluloid world. Impressed immensely by ‘Ben Hur’ with actor Charlton Heston and director Willian Wilder, he watched the film several times. Douglas Sirks ‘Imitation of Life left a lasting mark on him. Roberto felt that the ‘sky’ had given this director a great gift. By this time another priest channeled Benigni into joining a secretarial college.
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Benigni, the exuberant Italian actor/director who does slapstick and farce so well, has imagined a tragic comedy that plays without a trace of sentiment or melodrama. Instead, it's perfectly bittersweet and ironic, with several moments so small and fine that they might actually leave you holding your breath in grateful amazement.
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