Storyline:
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Cast:
Roberto Benigni (as Guido), Nicoletta Braschi (as Dora), Giorgio Cantarini (as Joshua), Marisa Paredes (as Dora's Mother), Horst Buchholz (as Doctor Lessing)