It's a Wonderful Life you two guys? You were here on my wedding night!" Streaming audio It's a Wonderful Life It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" from the operetta "Naughty Marietta". In 1994, the short won a BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. The following year it tied for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film with "Trevor". Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993) is a short comic film for BBC Scotland. Written and directed by Peter Capaldi, it stars Richard E. Grant as Franz Kafka and co-stars Ken Stott. The title refers to the name of the writer Franz Kafka and the film "It's a Wonderful Life", directed by Frank Capra,