Life is Beautiful. What a strange movie. The first 3rd is slap stick romance. The rest takes place in a POW camp during WWII-- the lead character is Jewish. The father uses humor and clowing to convince his son that it's all a game and if the win, the prize is a tank.
The switch between slapstick and horror happens quickly. This isn't Hogan's Heros-- people actually die. In one scene the father is carrying his sleeping son through deep fog. They stumble on a huge pile of human bones. The father quietly backs away, hoping to not wake his son.
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