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Life Is Beautiful
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Directed by
Roberto Benigni
Produced by
Gianluigi Braschi
Elda Ferri
Written by
Roberto Benigni
Vincenzo Cerami
Starring
Roberto Benigni
Nicoletta Braschi
Giorgio Cantarini
Giustino Durano
Horst Buchholz
Music by
Nicola Piovani
Cinematography
Tonino Delli Colli
Editing by
Simona Paggi
Studio
Cecchi Gori Group
Distributed by
Miramax Films
Release dates
20 December 1997 (Italy)
23 October 1998 (United States)
 
Running time
116 minutes[1]
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
 German
 English
Budget
$20 million[2]
Box office
$229,163,264[3]
Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who must employ his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. Part of the film came from Benigni's own family history; before Roberto's birth, his father had survived three years of internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Academy Awards as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 Reception
5 Soundtrack
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1939 Italy, Guido Orefice is a funny and charismatic young Jewish man looking for work in a city. He falls in love with a local school teacher, Dora, who is to be engaged to a rich but arrogant civil servant. Guido engineers further meetings with her, seizing on coincidental incidents to declare his affection for her, and finally wins her over. He steals her from her engagement party on a horse, humiliating her fiance and mother. Soon they are married and have a son, Joshua.
Through the first part, the film depicts the changing political climate in Italy: Guido frequently imitates members of the National Fascist Party, skewering their racist logic and pseudoscientific reasoning (at one point, jumping onto a table to demonstrate his "perfect Aryan bellybutton"). However, the growing Fascist wave is also evident: the horse Guido steals Dora away on has been painted green and covered in antisemitic insults.
Later during World War II, after Dora and her mother have reconciled, Guido, his Uncle Eliseo and Joshua are seized on Joshua's birthday, forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family. In the camp, Guido hides their true situation from his son, convincing him that the camp is a complicated game in which Joshua must perform the tasks Guido gives him, earning him points; the first team to reach one thousand points will win a tank. He tells him that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother, or says that he is hungry, he will lose points, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn extra points.
Guido uses this game to explain features of the concentration camp that would otherwise be scary for a young child: the guards are mean only because they want the tank for themselves; the dwindling numbers of children (who are being killed by the camp guards) are only hiding in order to score more points than Joshua so they can win the game. He puts off Joshua's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank, and need only wait a short while before they can return home with their tank. Despite being surrounded by the misery, sickness, and death at the camp, Joshua does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.
Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos of shutting down the camp as the Americans approach, he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final competition before the tank is his. Guido tries to find Dora, but is caught by a soldier. As he is marched off to be executed, he maintains the fiction of the game by deliberately marching in an exaggerated goose-step as he passes Joshua's hiding place.
The next morning, Joshua emerges from the sweatbox as the camp is occupied by an American armored division; he thinks he has won the game. The soldiers let him ride in the tank until, later that day, he sees Dora in the crowd of people streaming home from the camp. In the film, Joshua is a young boy; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Joshua recalling his father's story of sacrifice for his family.
Cast[edit]
Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice
Nicoletta Braschi as Dora
Giorgio Cantarini as Joshua
Giustino Durano as Uncle Eliseo
Horst Buchholz as Doctor Lessing
Marisa Paredes as Dora's mother
Sergio Bustric as Ferruccio
Amerigo Fontani as Rodolfo
Awards[edit]
Life Is Beautiful was shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, and went on to win the Grand Prix.[4] At the 71st Academy Awards, the film won awards for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, and Best Foreign Language Film, with Benigni winning Best Actor for his role. The film also received Academy Award nominations for Directing, Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture.[5]
Reception[edit]
Life Is Beautiful became commercially successful. After Miramax Films released the film on 23 October 1998 in the United States, the film went on to gross $57,563,264 in North America, and $171,600,000 internationally, with a worldwide gross of $229,163,264.[3] It is the highest grossing movie to be made in Italy, and the second highest grossing foreign film in the United States.
The film also received mostly positive reviews, with the film aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a "Fresh" 80% rating.[6] Despite its acclaim, actor-director Roberto Benigni received criticism for its comedic elements incorporated into the backdrop of the Holocaust. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 1/2 stars, stating, "At Cannes, it offended some left-wing critics with its use of humor in connection with the Holocaust. What may be most offensive to both wings is its sidestepping of politics in favor of simple human ingenuity. The film finds the right notes to negotiate its delicate subject matter."[7]
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Life Is Beautiful (soundtrack)
The original score to the film was composed by Nicola Piovani, with the exception of a classical piece which figures prominently: the "Barcarolle" by Jacques Offenbach. The soundtrack album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and was nominated for a Grammy Award: "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media", but lost to the score of A Bug's Life.
See also[edit]
Positive psychology
The Day the Clown Cried (1972), an unreleased film by Jerry Lewis
Train of Life (1998), by Radu Mihaileanu
Hotel Lux (2011), a tragicomedy by Leander Haußmann
SurvivorsJoseph Schleifstein, real-life child survivor of Buchenwald
Stefan Jerzy Zweig, real-life child survivor of Buchenwald
Further readingGrace Russo Bullaro‏, Beyond "Life is Beautiful": comedy and tragedy in the cinema of Roberto Benigni, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2005, ISBN 1-904744-83-4 / ISBN 978-1-904744-83-2
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "LA VITA E BELLA (LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL) (12A)". Buena Vista International. British Board of Film Classification. 26 November 1998. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Box Office Information for Life Is Beautiful. The Wrap. Retrieved 4 April 2013
3.^ Jump up to: a b Life Is Beautiful Box Office Mojo Retrieved 28 December 2010
4.Jump up ^ "Festival de Cannes: Life Is Beautiful". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
5.Jump up ^ Life is Beautiful The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Retrieved 28 December 2010
6.Jump up ^ Life is Beautiful Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved 2010-12-28
7.Jump up ^ "Ebert". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
External links[edit]
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Life Is Beautiful at the Internet Movie Database
Life Is Beautiful at Box Office Mojo
Life Is Beautiful at Rotten Tomatoes
Life Is Beautiful at Metacritic
Life is Beautiful at the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list
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The Pianist (2002 film)
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The Pianist
150m
Theatrical release poster
 
Directed by
Roman Polanski
Produced by
Roman Polanski
 Robert Benmussa
Alain Sarde
Screenplay by
Ronald Harwood
Based on
The Pianist
 by Władysław Szpilman
Starring
Adrien Brody
Thomas Kretschmann
Frank Finlay
Maureen Lipman
Emilia Fox
Michał Żebrowski
Music by
Wojciech Kilar
Cinematography
Paweł Edelman
Editing by
Hervé de Luze
Studio
Studio Canal+
Canal+
Studio Babelsberg
Distributed by
Focus Features
Universal Studios
Release dates
24 May 2002 (Cannes)
6 September 2002 (Poland)
25 December 2002 (US)
6 March 2003 (UK)
 
Running time
150 minutes
Country
France
 Poland
 Germany
 United Kingdom
Language
English
 Polish
 German
 Russian
 French
 Turkish
Budget
$35 million
Box office
$120,072,577
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film directed by Roman Polanski, scripted by Ronald Harwood and starring Adrien Brody.[1] It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist, a World War II memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman. The film is a co-production between Poland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
The Pianist met with significant critical praise and received multiple awards and nominations. The film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[2] At the 75th Academy Awards, The Pianist won Oscars for Best Director (Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ronald Harwood) and Best Actor (Brody), and was also nominated for four other awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003 and seven French Césars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Brody.

Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Home release
6 Music
7 Accolades
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
In September 1939, Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist, plays on radio in Warsaw when the station is bombed during Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. Hoping for a quick victory, Szpilman rejoices with family at home when learning that Britain and France have declared war on Germany. But Germany defeats Poland quickly and its troops enter Warsaw, where life for Jews deteriorates as the Nazi authorities prevent them from working or owning businesses and force them to wear blue Star of David armbands.
By November 1940, Szpilman and his family have been forced from their home into the overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto where conditions only get worse. People starve, the guards are brutal and corpses are left in the streets. On one occasion, the Szpilmans witness the SS kill an entire family during a łapanka (raid) in an apartment across the street. On 16 August 1942 the family are deported to Treblinka extermination camp, but Wladyslaw survives at the Umschlagplatz due to an intervention from a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police. Szpilman becomes a slave labourer and learns of a coming Jewish revolt. He helps by smuggling weapons into the ghetto, narrowly avoiding a suspicious guard. He then manages to escape and goes into hiding with help from non-Jewish friend Andrzej Bogucki and his wife Janina. In April 1943 Szpilman observes from his window the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising he aided and its ultimate failure. After a neighbor discovers him hiding, Szpilman is forced to flee and is provided with a second hiding place. He is shown into a room with a piano yet is compelled to keep quiet whilst beginning to suffer from jaundice.
In August 1944, the Polish resistance attack a German building across the street from Szpilman's hideout during the Warsaw Uprising. A tank shells his apartment, forcing him to escape and hide elsewhere. Over the course of the next months, the city is destroyed and abandoned, leaving Szpilman alone to search desperately for shelter and supplies among the ruins. He eventually makes his way to an abandoned home where he finds a can of pickles. While trying to open it he is discovered by the Wehrmacht officer Wilm Hosenfeld, who learns that Szpilman is a pianist and asks him to play on a grand piano in the house. The decrepit Szpilman plays Chopin's Ballade in G minor, which moves Hosenfeld enough to allow Szpilman to hide in the attic of the empty house where the German Captain regularly brings him food.
In January 1945, the Germans are forced to retreat due to the advance of the Red Army. Hosenfeld meets Szpilman for the last time and promises he will listen to him on Polish Radio after the war. He gives Szpilman his greatcoat to keep warm and leaves. However this has almost fatal consequences for Szpilman when he is mistaken as a German officer and shot at by Polish troops liberating Warsaw, who then apprehend and save him. In Spring 1945, former inmates of a Nazi concentration camp pass a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp holding captured German soldiers and verbally abuse them. Hosenfeld, among those captured, overhears a released inmate lament over his former career as a violinist. He asks the violinist if he knows Szpilman, which the violinist confirms. Hosenfeld wishes for Szpilman to return the favor and help release him. Sometime later, the violinist is able to bring Szpilman back to the site but they find it has been long abandoned.
Later, Szpilman performs Chopin's Grand Polonaise brillante to a large and prestigious audience. An epilogue states that Szpilman died at the age of 88 in the year 2000, while Hosenfeld died in Soviet captivity in 1952, seven long years after the war had officially ended.
Cast[edit]
Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman
Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Frank Finlay as Father Szpilman
Maureen Lipman as Mother Szpilman
Emilia Fox as Dorota
Ed Stoppard as Henryk
Julia Rayner as Regina
Jessica Kate Meyer as Halina
Ronan Vibert as Andrzej Bogucki
Ruth Platt as Janina Bogucki
Michał Żebrowski as Jurek
Roy Smiles as Itzhak Heller
Richard Ridings as Mr. Lipa
Daniel Caltagirone as Majorek
Valentine Pelka as Dorota's Husband
Zbigniew Zamachowski as Customer with Coins
Production[edit]
The story had deep connections with director Roman Polanski because he escaped from the Kraków Ghetto as a child after the death of his mother. He ended up living in a Polish farmer's barn until the war's end. His father almost died in the camps, but they reunited after the end of World War II.
Joseph Fiennes was Polanski's first choice for the lead role, but he turned it down due to a previous commitment to the theatre. Over 1,400 actors auditioned for the role of Szpilman at a casting call in London. Unsatisfied with all who tried, Polanski sought to cast Adrien Brody, whom he saw as ideal for the role during their first meeting in Paris.
Principal photography on The Pianist began on 9 February 2001 in Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam, Germany. The Warsaw Ghetto and the surrounding city were recreated on the backlot of Babelsberg Studio as they would have looked during the war. Old Soviet Army barracks were used to create the ruined city, as they were going to be destroyed anyway.
The first scenes of the film were shot at the old army barracks. Soon after, the film crew moved to a villa in Potsdam, which served as the house where Szpilman meets Hosenfeld. On 2 March 2001, filming then moved to an abandoned Soviet military hospital in Beelitz, Germany. The scenes that featured German soldiers destroying a Warsaw hospital with flamethrowers were filmed here. On 15 March, filming finally moved to Babelsberg Studios. The first scene shot at the studio was the complex and technically demanding scene in which Szpilman witnesses the ghetto uprising.
Filming at the studios ended on 26 March and moved to Warsaw on 29 March. The rundown district of Praga was chosen for filming because of its abundance of original buildings. The art department built onto these original buildings, re-creating World War II–era Poland with signs and posters from the period. Additional filming also took place around Warsaw. The Umschlagplatz scene where Szpilman, his family and hundreds of other Jews wait to be taken to the extermination camps was filmed at the National Defence University of Warsaw.
Principal photography ended in July 2001 and was followed by months of post-production in Paris, France.
Reception[edit]
The Pianist received extremely positive reviews from film critics. It has a 96% approval rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 178 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10 and the consensus, "Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski's best work in years."[3] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score, gave the film a score of 85/100, based on 40 reviews from critics.[4]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a positive review of the film, noting that "perhaps that impassive quality reflects what [director Roman] Polanski wants to say... By showing Szpilman as a survivor but not a fighter or a hero—as a man who does all he can to save himself, but would have died without enormous good luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews—Polanski is reflecting... his own deepest feelings: that he survived, but need not have, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed."[5] Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune said that the film "is the best dramatic feature I've seen on the Holocaust experience, so powerful a statement on war, inhumanity and art's redemption that it may signal Polanski's artistic redemption." He would later go on to say that the film "illustrates that theme and proves that Polanski's own art has survived the chaos of his life -- and the hell that war and bigotry once made of it."[6] Richard Schickel of Time called it a "raw, unblinkable film" and said that "We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies."[7] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the film "contains moments of irony, of ambiguity and of strange beauty, as when we finally get a look at Warsaw and see a panorama of destruction, a world of color bombed into black-and-white devastation." He also said that "In the course of showing us a struggle for survival, in all its animal simplicity, Polanski also gives us humanity, in all its complexity."[8] A.O. Scott of The New York Times said that Szpilman "comes to resemble one of Samuel Beckett's gaunt existential clowns, shambling through a barren, bombed-out landscape clutching a jar of pickles. He is like the walking punchline to a cosmic jest of unfathomable cruelty." He also felt that "Szpilman's encounter, in the war's last days, with a music-loving Nazi officer... ...courted sentimentality by associating the love of art with moral decency, an equation the Nazis themselves, steeped in Beethoven and Wagner, definitively refuted."[9]
Home release[edit]
The Pianist was released on DVD on 26 May 2003 in a double-sided disc Special Edition DVD, with the film on one side and special features on the other. Some Bonus Material included a making-of, interviews with Brody, Polanski, and Harwood, and clips of Szpilman playing the piano. The Polish DVD edition included an audio commentary track by production designer Starski and director of photography Edelman.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the film on HD-DVD on 8 January 2008 with extras comprising the featurette "A Story of Survival" and rare footage of the real Władysław Szpilman playing his piano, as well as additional interviews with Adrien Brody and other crew.
Optimum Home Entertainment released The Pianist to the European market on Blu-ray as part of their StudioCanal Collection on 13 September 2010,[10] the film's second release on Blu-ray. The first was troublesome due to issues with subtitles; the initial BD lacked subtitles for spoken German dialogue. Optimum later rectified this[11] but the initial release also lacked notable special features. The StudioCanal Collection version includes an extensive Behind the Scenes look as well as several interviews with the makers of the film and Szpilman's relatives.[12]
Music[edit]
Further information: The Pianist (soundtrack)
The piano piece heard at the beginning of the film is Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor Lento con gran espressione, Op. posth.
The piano piece that is heard being played by a next door neighbour while Szpilman was in hiding at an apartment was Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4.
The piano music heard in the abandoned house when Szpilman had just discovered a hiding place in the attic is the Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight Sonata) by Beethoven. It would later be revealed that German officer Hosenfeld was the pianist. The German composition juxtaposed with the mainly Polish/Chopin selection of Szpilman.
The piano piece played when Szpilman is confronted by Hosenfeld is Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, but the version played in the movie was shortened (the entire piece lasts about 10 minutes).
The cello piece heard at the middle of the film, played by Dorota, is the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.
The piano piece heard at the end of the film, played with an orchestra, is Chopin's Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22.
Shots of Szpilman's hands playing the piano in close-up were performed by Polish classical pianist Janusz Olejniczak (b. 1952), who also performed on the soundtrack.
Since Polański wanted the film to be as realistic as possible, any scene showing Brody playing was actually his playing overdubbed by recordings performed by Janusz Olejniczak. In order for Brody's playing to look like it was at the level of Władysław Szpilman's, he spent many months prior to and during the filming practicing so that his keystrokes on the piano would convince viewers that Brody himself was playing. It was never specified whether or not it was actually Adrien Brody playing at certain points in the film, such as the beginning where Władysław Szpilman's playing is interrupted by German bombing.
Accolades [edit]
WinsAcademy Award for Best Actor – Adrien Brody
Academy Award for Best Director – Roman Polanski
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay – Ronald Harwood
Palme d'Or, 2002 Cannes Film Festival[2]
BAFTA Award for Best Film
BAFTA Award for Best Direction – Roman Polanski
César Award for Best Actor
César Award for Best Director
César Award for Best Film
César Award for Best Music Written for a Film
César Award for Best Cinematography
César Award for Best Production Design
César Award for Best Sound
Goya Award for Best European Film
NominationsAcademy Award for Best Cinematography – Paweł Edelman
Academy Award for Best Costume Design – Anna B. Sheppard
Academy Award for Film Editing – Hervé de Luze
Academy Award for Best Picture
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role – Adrien Brody
BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – Ronald Harwood
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography – Paweł Edelman
BAFTA Award for Best Sound – Jean-Marie Blondel, Dean Humphreys, Gérard Hardy
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Adrien Brody
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
See also[edit]
List of Holocaust films
References[edit]
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2.^ Jump up to: a b "Festival de Cannes: The Pianist". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
3.Jump up ^ "The Pianist". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "The Pianist". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
5.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (3 January 2003). "The Pianist". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Wilmington, Michael (January 5, 2003). "Polanski's `Pianist' may put `profligate dwarf' in better light". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Schickel, Richard (December 15, 2002). "Have a Very Leo Noel". Time. p. 4. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
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10.Jump up ^ "StudioCanal Collection". Retrieved 24 June 2010.
11.Jump up ^ "Problems with initial BD release". Retrieved 1 August 2010.
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External links[edit]
The Pianist at the Internet Movie Database
The Pianist at Box Office Mojo
The Pianist at Rotten Tomatoes
The Pianist at Metacritic
Wladyslaw Szpilman's personal Website: The Pianist - The book
Szpilman's Warsaw: The History behind The Pianist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Pianist at culture.pl

Awards
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Amélie Goya Award for Best European Film
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