'LA VITA E BELLA' This movie Won 3 Oscars,and Another 52 wins & 27 nominations.

The film starts in the 1930s when Guido relocates from the country to a large Tuscan town where he falls in love with schoolteacher Dora.

She is already engaged to another guy, but Guido stills fights for her.

The story continues 5 years later, during wartime, Guido is married to Dora and they have a son called Giosue.

Guido is of Jewish origin, and he is sent to a concentration camp with Giosue and Dora follows them, only to be sent to another camp.

The story has a time gap of many years, hence the deportation happens suddenly and the setting changes from the small italian village to the concentration camp.

From that point, the movie still maintains a high level of entertainment but this only barely covers the dramaticity of the events.

While it may look cynical to make fun of the holocaust, I think that Benigni manages to do this in an admirable way, the subject is difficult and it is easy to sink down into bad taste, but this fortunately never happens.