Life Is Beautiful

Plot: 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.


This film is similar to my radio play in the way the males create illusions to protect the ones they love and care for from the horrors of the camps. It also tells the story of the Jews before, during and after the war and what the jewish families went through- even the children.