The "Nazigame" vs "Guido's game"

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 1999)

La vita e bella is a great film and I gave it a nine. After reading several other comments I'd like to add the following:
The aspect I liked most in the film is that Guido and his son played this game in the concentration camp.
As an Austrian I have learned a lot at school about the history of WW2. Obviously this also included the concentration camps. The existence of these camps - or better the idea of mass production-killing-farms - had become an accepted fact. For some reason I did not think anymore about how crazy and absurd these concentration camps actually were.
When I first saw Guido and his child playing their game in the camp I thought that that was an absurd idea. Only later did I realise that their game was actually a lot less crazy than the reality.
I have become aware again how incredible it was what Hitler and lots of helping hands had tried to do. There has never been a more crazy and devilish game invented.