Highest box office film gross for an Italian film

According to Official Guinness Records,

La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) (Italy 1997), released by Miramax and starring the director, Roberto Benigni (Italy), had a worldwide gross of US$229 million (£143 million). It also became the highest grossing foreign language film in North America with US$57.6 million (£36 million), overtaking the previous record of US$21.8 million (£13.62 million) set by Il Postino (It 1994), another Miramax film. And in the UK, it became the highest grossing foriegn-language film at £3.03 million, overtaking the £2.45 million gross of Cyrano de Bergerac (Fr 1990)

For a complete list of 1999 records, please visit 1999 Guinness Records in Italy.

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