Criticism may be understandable, but I think this film has a bigger impact than a depressing film.

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2000)

Of course this wonderful film does not tell us the exact story of what happened in the concentration camps, but I maintain that the mixture of humorous and tragic events in this film, now, over 50 years after WW II, makes the film more effective in showing the horrors of the holocaust and moving the modern spectator, than if the director had made a completely serious, realistic and thus depressing film. Just to get things clear: I am not commenting on the terrible things that took place in the camps, but I do think that nowadays, this film 'goes down' better this way, because it combines several, appealing emotions with a view on a terrible era in our history.