'Life Is Beautiful' hits Chinese theaters with 4K version

Oscar-winning Italian comedy-drama film Life Is Beautiful hit Chinese theaters with a 4K version Friday.

Directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who also co-wrote the story, the film revolves around a Jewish Italian bookshop owner who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

The film won numerous awards, including the 1999 Oscar for best actor, best foreign-language film and best original score.

Known in Italian as La vita e bella, the film has never been released on the Chinese mainland before.