Life is Beautiful Oscar and 7 Academy Award

“Life is Beautiful” Oscar and 7 Academy Award Nominations Classic Movies About Holocaust 1997

About the Plot • The movie shows very serious and deep ideas in a funny way. • This Oscar-winning Holocaust story with Roberto Benigni (as a writer/director/star of the movie) tells about a Jewish innocent living in a small Italian village with his wife and son in 1939. • When father and son are sent to a concentration camp, Benigni uses games and humor to shield/protect the boy from the surrounding horrors/terrible things. • Nicoletta Braschi and Giorgio Cantarini also star in this movie.

Setting : Place and Time a. _____ b. _____

A Concentration Camp… How to survive with a little child ? How to inform his wife who demanded to take her in the same train, that they are still alive and there is still a hope.

In his real life he was a simple waiter there, in the restaurant of a fancy hotel he met his future wife. (who wasn’t Jewish, she was Italian) Can you expect from a Jewish usual/ordinary person to behave like a hero, the most courageous and brave man ? Why did he act like that? Was it really funny?

Who will rescue a child from gas chambers, the so called “Showers”?

Choose One picture to talk about

Find out who will survive ? Will Joshua accomplish his dream and get a real tank as a prize? Find the last part of the movie and answer this question. Use pictures, images or clips to justify your answers.