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Life Is Beautiful

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Original title

La vita è bella

Year

1979

Running time

101 min.

Country

Soviet Union (USSR)

Director

Grigori Chukhrai

Screenwriter

Giovanni Fago

Cast

Music

Armando Trovajoli

Cinematography

Mikhail Bits, Luigi Kuveiller

Producer

Co-production Soviet Union (USSR)-Italy;

Mosfilm, Quattro Favalli Cinematografica

Genre

Drama. Romance

Synopsis

In this political drama, focuses on the nature of political persecution through his hero Antonio (Giancarlo Giannini), a taxi driver in the capital of a dictatorship. Running alongside the political theme is a love story between Antonio and María, a waitress in a local café. Antonio was booted out of the military for refusing to fire on a boat carrying women and children during the Angola civil war. His main objective now is to stay aloof and uninvolved -- until he meets María. She has him take a man to the airport one day, and Antonio soon realizes that this fellow is a revolutionary working to oust the dictator. The ride he gave the man is the excuse the Secret Police need to pick up Antonio, and they put him in prison where they abuse him, trying to find out about his passenger. But he truly does not know anything, and he would never implicate María. The other prisoners at first turn against him but change their attitude when they discover he plans an escape, and soon everyone is about to make a break for freedom.

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Life Is Beautiful

1979

Grigori Chukhrai