Roberto Benigni
Birthday: 1952-10-27
Place of Birth: Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy
Biography: Roberto Benigni, (born October 27, 1952, Misericordia, Arezzo, Italy), Italian actor and director known for his comedic work, most notably La vita è bella (1997; Life Is Beautiful), for which he won an Academy Award for best actor. Benigni was the son of a poor tenant farmer who had worked in a German forced-labour camp during World War II. The elder Benigni used humour in retelling his experiences, which helped shape his son’s comedic skill. Benigni briefly attended a Jesuit seminary in Florence, and, after a stint as a magician’s assistant, he joined an underground theatre group in the late 1960s.
Movies
Night on Earth
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
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Coffee and Cigarettes
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al...
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Life Is Beautiful
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...
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Down by Law
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans....
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Pinocchio
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-orient...
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The Tiger and the Snow
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...
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Womanlight
The story is simple: two people who have recently suffered a great deal come together for consolatio...
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Francesco Il Cantico
Roberto Benigni presents us with the most intimate and authentic portrait of Saint Francis: a surpri...
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The Monster
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris ...
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Johnny Stecchino
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally...
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Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a...
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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen an...
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In the Pope's Eye
The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should ...
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The Little Devil
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day ...
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Sanremo 2023. Tra Palco e realtà
Gianni Morandi tells the story behind the scenes of the Ariston Theater, revealing the great work an...
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FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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Son of the Pink Panther
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin....
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The Days Are Numbered
After a close call on on the highway, Marco--a very famous singer/songwriter in 1968--climbs onto th...
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Untouchable
The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and...
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Tigers in Lipstick
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 ...
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La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli
Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli....
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To Rome with Love
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young ...
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You Upset Me
The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During ...
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Seeking Asylum
A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from th...
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Berlinguer: I Love You
A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win he...
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The Voice of the Moon
Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander t...
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The Soup
Two homeless men in Rome are arrested due to a misunderstanding. In jail, they meet a man who has be...
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La più bella del mondo
Using a lectern on which the Constitution is placed, Benigni begins to read each article praising an...
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his backgro...
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The Last Laugh
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use hu...
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Roberto Benigni: TuttoBenigni
The film presents many clips taken from the television and theatrical shows of the Tuscan comedian w...
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Luna
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest ...
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Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna...
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Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
She is one of the icons of our time: Isabella Rossellini, award-winning actress, supermodel, experim...
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian C...
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Coffee and Cigarettes
In a vignette called "Strange to meet you," Roberto sits at a small table in a coffee bar. Five cups...
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TuttoBenigni 95/96
One laugh after another, a sparkle of jokes. In the live performance of the 95/96 season Benigni pre...
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Caterina in the Big City
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old C...
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supe...
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Evviva Giuseppe
The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues....
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La voce di Fantozzi
The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, ...
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Pinocchio
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden p...
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Cinque mondi
Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore t...
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Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
In this documentary film, directed by Dominique Maillet for StudioCanal, director Martin Scorsese, c...
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La commedia di Amos Poe
A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation...
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Opinioni di un clown - Roberto Benigni
A documentary about the career of Roberto Benigni with many rare and funny sketches....
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly...
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Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte....
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Towards the Moon with Fellini
A rare, comical and up-close behind-the-scenes look at the late Italian director Federico Fellini, a...
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Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century ...
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Ladra di sogni
Accompanied by a background of classical music, Benigni dressed in eighteenth-century clothes moves ...
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The Singing Priest
In 2015, Roman Catholic priest Rob Galea joined the Australian version of The X Factor but, due to h...
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
Conan O'Brien celebrates ten years of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in this one-hour special. Many...
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Il sogno
Roberto Benigni's show dedicated to the history of Europe and the European Union....
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Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy
A delightful DVD of Prokofiev's universally beloved and popular "musical tale," brought to life by h...
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Pietro - A man in the wind
Roberto Benigni's monologue dedicated to the life of St. Peter: a unique event held in the heart of ...
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