Wan Comedy about Serious Historical Event

Rating: 4/10 (20 March 1999)

Aharon Appelfeld wrote a novel, Badenheim 1939, a few years ago about poor Jewish souls who tried to ignore the impending Nazi invasion. I see no difference between Appelfeld's characters and the characters in Life is Beautiful.
I've read the comments about how heroic the father is. Instead he was partially the creator of the tragedy. By blithely ignoring the world around him he helped seal his own fate.