The acting is still wonderfully done. A scene that comes as a shock to us English-speakers is in the last five minutes of the movie, when we hear, for the first time, English. It is spoken by an American soldier, kind of a cross between Andy Griffith and Elvis - perhaps Italy's interpretation of Americans. Of course the Holocaust is sad, and people dying is sad, and this movie realizes that and conveys it in its own way. Begnini has done the impossible and made an extremely uplifting and ebjoyable Holocaust movie, filled with portrayals of the human spirit.
Life Is Beautiful is a marvel in so many beautiful ways.