- This piece is a theme from Piovani’s score for the 1997 movie La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful), directed by and starring Roberto Benigni.
- Story: in Life is Beautiful, Guido, a young, imaginative Jewish man tries to protect his family during the Nazi invasion of Italy – partly by pretending for his young son that their incarceration in a concentration camp is an elaborate game with a tank for the prize.
- “Buongiorno Principessa” (Good morning, princess!) is how the irrepressibly positive Guido habitually greets his wife.1
Sources
- “Life is Beautiful (1997),” IMDB, accessed December 12, 2019, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/.
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