Life Is Beautiful

Dec 21, 1979

1h 41m

★ 6.8

Overview

Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Quattro Favalli Cinematografica

Mosfilm

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Cast

Antonio Murillo

Giancarlo Giannini

Ornella Muti

Otar Koberidze

Regimantas Adomaitis

Juozas Budraitis

Enzo Fiermonte

Stefano Madia

Yevgeni Lebedev

Stanislav Chekan

Feliks Yavorsky

Nikolay Dupak

Andrei Daniluk

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