
Roberto Benigni leapt up with a riff on the 26th Canto of Dante's ''Inferno,'' in which fraudulent advisers are engulfed by flames that scorch them. ''It's like landing in Los Angeles or Manhattan, full of little lights like a skyscraper,'' he exclaimed in his frenetically choppy English. ''Dante describes the lights like fireflies, like a farmer...

War may be hell, but for Roberto Benigni it's just another romantic comedy waiting to be filmed. Having already mined the Holocaust and surfaced with three Academy Awards, this gnomic Italian superstar has turned his attention to the Iraq war with ''The Tiger and the Snow,'' a scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie...
Roberto Remigio Benigni (født 27. oktober 1952) er en italiensk skuespiller, forfatter og instruktør. Han er mest kendt for filmen Livet er smukt (La vita è bella) fra 1997, som han både skrev manuskript til, instruerede og spillede hovedrollen i. Han vandt en Oscar og en BAFTA Award for denne hovedrolle.