LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Raquel

Life is beautiful
 

We find ourselves in the year 1939, the year in which ends the wars and World War II begins. An era characterized by totalitarianism as Italian Fascism.
The film Life Is Beautiful the could be divided into two very distinct parts: a first in which there is a cross between comedy and romance, and a second in which dominates the rawness of Fascist Italy in the Second World War and its consequences for Jews.In the first part, we Güido, a young man who comes to Arezo, a small town in Italy. Güido moves in with his uncle, and gets to work in his restaurant. There with his charm and wiles, enter into a relationship with a doctor who later will serve the Nazi army.Güido Dora falls deeply in love Arezo a young teacher. In his stratagems and clever cortejeos get conquer, get married and have a son named Joshua. By then, are the first actions of the fascists against Jewish interests.From this moment begins the second part of the film, Güido, owns a bookstore that will be the target of the Nazis.Before the German invasion, all Jews were deported to concentration camps and including Güido, Joshua and his uncle using them in labor for armament factories.Dora, the wife of Güido not Jewish, but does not allow separate from her husband and son and requires soldiers to stop the train and up.Here begin the most dramatic scenes in the film but the director and actor, with great skill, manages to hide the pain, anguish and fear of the Jews.On the way to the camp, with his extraordinary character Güido based on lies deceives his son Joshua to not be aware of the place where they go. Making use again of his wit, get your child to take this deportation as a game that must be accumulating points to win the magnificent tank, with both dreamed.The Nazi military separating men and women, "eliminating" all those who do not are useful: children, elderly, sick ...A Joshua does not like this place, you can not go out and play, go hungry, wants to go with her mother ... , But again the power of imagination father Joshua manages to keep taking this as a game.One night, he found Güido Nazi military that he met while working at the restaurant. He asks for help and he asked to work as a waiter at a party they were going to organize the great military leaders of the field. Güido access and from this time is when the hope of getting out of that place began to emerge. The protagonist prepares the next night for dinner and takes to take his son with him and put him in the tables of the children to eat well for a day.One night there was an uproar in the field: bonfires in the yard, discriminated shooting, racing, trucks up and down ... and Güido imagining that everything is the result of the withdrawal of the Germans, the entry of the allies and therefore, the end of the war, hides his sontelling him not to leave the place until you hear any noise. Once your child safe from the military Güido goes in search of Dora, but can not find it and it caught and shot by the Germans.The next morning, after disappearing all Nazi forces began to emerge all those who had been hiding all night in order to leave the place and head home. Joshua followed his father's warnings, when there was no sound came out of that place carefully where he had been hiding all night and the first thing I saw is a large tank, which addressed him. His father was right, they had won "the prize" and on the way back home up to "your tank" found his mother.

Here you have the trailer of the film and some photos: