Mr. BENIGNI: (Through Translator) I think that the anti-war feeling is very clear, very strong.

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Once again, writer and director Benigni stars as an exuberant and scatterbrained lovestruck every man.

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Amazingly, once in the camp, Mr Benigni's comic brilliance makes an absurd premise almost believable.

ECONOMIST: Italy��s Charlie Chaplin

"Life" won three Oscars for best actor (Benigni), best foreign film, and best dramatic score.

CNN: Showbuzz

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.

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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.

BBC: Sir Ian McKellen

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.

ECONOMIST: Italy��s Charlie Chaplin

Benigni has been a constant critic of that war.

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Mr. ROBERTO BENIGNI: (As Attilio Giovanni) ...(Unintelligible).

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Mr. BENIGNI: (As Attilio Giovanni) I'm Italian.

NPR: Iraq War Is Backdrop for Latest Benigni Film