does anyone know this movie title?
Question by tarobun: does anyone know this movie title?
it’s a foreign, color film about a man and his son in a concentration camp during the holocaust. and i remember scenes like the dad was making a tank and lying to his son that it’s a contest that they are close to winning. then the son was eating with the german kids and almost got caught by saying thank you in hebrew.
just curious if anyone knows this movie title.
Best answer:
Answer by Meaghan
Life is Beautiful (1997): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/
Summary:
“In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.”
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxU7YF-HCWc
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