Life is Beautiful, is an Italian film about a Jewish man during WW2, and his attempt to hide the horrors of the Holocaust from his son using his humor. The story begins with the main character Guido Orifice moving from his old life to work with his uncle. He soon falls in love with a woman named Dora, and tries many times to get her attention before she gets engaged with a rich man. They soon fall in love, and she leaves her fiance to be with Guido. Shortly after they get married, and have a boy named Joshua. After a few years WW2 begins and Guido, his Uncle, and Joshua are are all captured by the Germans, and taken on a train to a concentration camp. When they arrive, Joshua has many questions, and his dad uses his humor to hide the horrors of the camp, and tells Joshua that it is a game. Guido would tell Joshua that whoever gets 1000 points first in the game, will win a tank. His efforts in making sure Joshua did not know what was happening were very selfless, even up to his death he made Joshua laugh. In the end, Guido made the ultimate sacrifice for his family, and Joshua, and Dora were saved when the US army came.
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