In the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful, Guido Orefice’s young son is named Giosuè.
Giosuè is played by Giorgio Cantarini, while Roberto Benigni plays his father, Guido. The film follows Guido’s effort to protect his son’s emotional world after the family is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.
Guido presents the camp’s dangers as a points-based game, using imagination and humor to shield Giosuè from the full horror surrounding them. The story combines comedy, historical drama, and tragedy, and its father-son relationship is the emotional center of the film.
The name may appear with different accenting or transliteration in international sources, but Giosuè is the character’s Italian name. He is not the same as Guido, who is the father and protagonist.