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Comedy | Drama | War |
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Italy |
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| IMDB Rating: |
8.4 out of 10 (58141 votes) |
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Taglines: | 1: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all. |
Plot Summary: In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
Plot Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anvil, automobile, bicycle, blockbuster, bookstore, boy, cake, charades, concentration-camp, controversial, directed-by-star, Family, fascism, father-son-relationship, green-horse, hat, holocaust, hotel, Italy, jew, love, nazi, nazi-concentration-camp, poodle, restaurant, riddle, sacrifice, schoolteacher, tank, waiter, wwii hide
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