Life Is Beautiful
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Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian booksho
English-language release poster
The film was shot in Arezzo, Tuscany, including by the Badia delle Sante Flora e Lucilla.
Roberto Benigni received positive reviews for his film and performance, which he starred in with his wife Nicoletta Braschi.
Horst Buchholz
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Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". He is perhaps best known in En
Life Is Beautiful
…Giustino Durano as Uncle Eliseo, an Italian-Jewish maître, Giosuè's granduncle and Guido's uncle Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing, a regular customer at Eliseo's restaurant who often tries to solve riddles when with Guido, later a doctor at the concentration camp…
Horst Buchholz
Horst Buchholz with Myriam Bru, late 1950s
Buchholz's gravestone in Berlin. The word below his name means "actor". Below his birth and death dates it says in German, "Love the world and the world will love you".