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discussed in biography
- In Roberto Benigni
  Life Is Beautiful, however, established Benigni as an international star. The movie—which he wrote, directed, and acted in—was released in the United States in 1998 and became one of the highest-grossing non-English-language films in American box-office history. At the 1999 Academy Awards ceremony, Benigni became…
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Italian motion pictures
- In Italy: Film
  …La vita è bella (1997; Life Is Beautiful), which also won for best foreign movie. Italian films are increasingly coproductions of cinema and television companies. The Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and Fininvest are presently Italy’s largest film producers, accounting for more than half of the film output, which numbers several hundred…
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Oscar for best foreign-language film, 1998
post-Holocaust art
- In Holocaust: Artistic responses to the Holocaust
  …La vita è bella (1997; Life Is Beautiful), directed by Roberto Benigni; Bent (1997), directed by Sean Mathias and based on Martin Sherman’s 1979 play about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals; The Pianist (2002), an adaptation of Władysław Szpilman’s autobiography, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in
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