Life Is Beautiful
– A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, a..
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
21 Dec 1979
Russian
Grigoriy Chukhray
Augusto Caminito (revisions to original story), Grigoriy Chukhray (revisions to original story), Gianfranco Clerici (revisions to original story), Giovanni Fago (story)
Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti, Otar Koberidze, Regimantas Adomaitis
Antonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars,he falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d Oliveira Salazar ( Ornella Muti) . He is arrested and escaped with his love. The code word among the resisters is : "Life is Beutifull" I recently saw this movie in a VHS copy from the Venezuelan " Cinemateca Nacional"