Life Is Beautiful
A Jewish waiter in Arezzo wins a schoolteacher away from a fascist official through staged coincidences and stolen entrances; some years on he, their small son and his uncle are loaded onto a transport, and he tells the boy the camp is a contest with a tank for the winner. The mother boards the train after them. Playing the deportation as sustained comic invention took the Cannes jury prize and drew lasting objection.
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