Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Alberto Rabagliati, MarÃÂa Mercader and Anna Magnani. It was shot at the Palatino Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin.
A count, broke through his addiction to gambling and suicidal, is offered a deal by a professor. He can have as much money for ten days as he likes as long as he agrees to act at the end of them as the subject of a new experimental drug which might have dangerous side effects. However, during these ten days the count undergoes a transformation of his worldview after falling in with a vagabond and staying in the countryside with two sisters.