After years of making films that wowed European audiences, Roberto Benigni has finally created a film that has done business in America, and it happens to be one of the greatest war films of all time. Life is Beautiful is a brilliant work of comedy and drama that is destined to be ranked with the classics of cinema. Drama is much more effective when contrasted with comedy. Benigni uses this fact to the best advantage as he makes you laugh out loud minutes before the tears come.
Life is Beautiful is a about the holocaust and the people in it.
Years later the couple has a beautiful little boy. Their lives are hardly influences by the second world war until the Nazis come to town and round up the Jews. It happens to be Guido's son's birthday and the last thing Guido wants is for his son have to know the horrors of the concentration camps. He tells his son that they are in a contest with all the other men, and that the winner gets a real tank. It just so happens that the rules of the game have to do with hiding from men in uniforms and not being hungry.