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CINEMA SOTTO LE STELLE • La Vita e’ Bella – Life is Beautiful
The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere79 Howard AvenueSpecial Holocaust Series: “If You Are Not Indifferent, Things Can Be Different”
La Vita e’ Bella – Life is Beautiful (1999) by Roberto Benigni
Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 8 pm
A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice, meets Dora, a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosué. Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosué are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. Determined to shelter his son from the horrors of his surroundings, Guido convinces Giosué that their time in the camp is merely a game.