Roberto Benigni, whose film Life is Beautifulwas set during the Holocaust, is currently shooting a comedy about the Iraq war.
In spite of the subject matter, Oscar-winner Benigni intends the film – which is due for release in 2005 – to be a comedy.
Benigni plays the part of a poet who is in Iraq by chance and is caught up in the events.
“War naturally is the background of the film and my character is directly involved in it. This poet ends up in Iraq by pure chance,” Benigni told Italian Rai radio.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.