Roberto Benigni
Channel: Say it in Italian
Date: 2012-11-20

Roberto Remigio Benigni,  is an Academy Award winning Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.Benigni is probably best known outside Italy for his 1997 tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), filmed in Arezzo, also written by Cerami. The film is about an Italian Jewish man who tries to protect his son's innocence during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win.
Benigni's father had spent three years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen,  and La vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences