Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella, Russian: Жизнь прекрасна, romanized: Zhizn prekrasna, also known as Betrayed) is a 1979 Italian-Soviet romantic drama directed by Grigory Chukhray.

Antonio Murillo is a former military pilot who was dismissed from the army for refusing to sink a ship loaded with refugees.

Antonio, for all his dislike of the junta is not interested in politics, his dream is to save money and to become a pilot again, and to own a private plane.

Through ingenuity and mechanic skills he manages to save the life of underground fighters, disrupting the arranged provocation caused by the warden, and then organize an escape from prison.

Together with Maria, Antonio in a stolen taxi gets away from the police, and then uses a hijacked plane to leave the country.