Mr. BENIGNI: (Through Translator) I think that the anti-war feeling is very clear, very strong.
Once again, writer and director Benigni stars as an exuberant and scatterbrained lovestruck every man.
Amazingly, once in the camp, Mr Benigni's comic brilliance makes an absurd premise almost believable.
"Life" won three Oscars for best actor (Benigni), best foreign film, and best dramatic score.
After all, Benigni appears to be saying, the Germans were indulging a fantasy, too the fantasy of total control.
The comedian Roberto Benigni, playing a motor-mouth cabbie in the Italian episode, briefly enlivens the picture with a riotous erotic monologue.
This time, he's a poet, Attilio Giovanni, who pines after the woman of his dreams, Vittoria, played by Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.
The film is about a Tuscan Jew (played by Mr Benigni) in fascist Italy who ends up with his five-year-old son in a German concentration camp.
He also admitted his regret at missing out on the best actor Oscar in 1999 for Gods and Monsters to Roberto Benigni's performance in Life is Beautiful.
As Mr Benigni and his screenwriter, Vincenzo Cerami, got down to the script, they asked advice of the association of Italian deportees, mostly Jews who had survived the camps.
Some pairings like the laconic comic Steven Wright and the Italian yo-yo Roberto Benigni turn out to be duds, but other encounters like the one between the hip-hoppers RZA and GZA and a woozy Bill Murray have a singular, irreproducible chemistry.
Mr. ROBERTO BENIGNI: (As Attilio Giovanni) ...(Unintelligible).
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