Roberto Benigni picked up the Best Actor and Best Foreign Film Oscars for this remarkable story of coping with the horrors of the second world war by seeing the bright side of it.

He plays a family man who doesn't want his son to know the terror that the Nazis are spreading so he concocts humourous anecdotes and bouts of slapstick comedy to help his son survive in a Nazi concentration camp. Innocent, thoughtful and deeply moving, 'Life is Beautiful' really is life affirming, and beautiful.