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This 5 page report discusses three movies: Train of Life (1998), the well-known
and award-winning Italian work Life is Beautiful (1997), and the French documentary
Night and Fog (1955). The question being asked is whether comedy/fantasy or a fictional
representation has a greater impact than that of a documentary. Bibliography lists 6
sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWholflm.rtf
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the world with stories that will never (and should never) end has meant that those stories have served as creative inspiration. Some excellent examples are the French film Train of
Life (1998), the well-known and award-winning Italian work Life is Beautiful (1997), and the French documentary Night and Fog (1955). Humor or Horror? The road that the director
takes to present a Holocaust story can focus on several different directions. The choice may be made to present the story as a factual and horrific event with no need
for "story telling" or embellishment. The facts speak loudly enough on their own. The other choice is to make the story more personal and somehow more real by presenting the
events as seen through the eyes and experience of one individual or a group of individuals. The student comparing Holocaust films is likely to find that the stories presented in
movies such as The Diary of Anne Frank, Last Dance, Sophies Choice, Schindlers List, and Life is Beautiful, to name only a few, make the people of the Holocaust, survivors
and victims, more real, more personal, more alive which then makes what they experienced all the more horrifying. The premise of Train of Life (or its original French
title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns that Nazi troops are headed their way. Schlomo (played by Lionel Abelanski),
the "idiot" hatches a perfect situation which, as one reviewer points out: "... given that it is the product of a madman in a time of madness, is entirely
appropriate to the situation." The plan is to escape the village on what the Germans will think is deportation train or a train to the death camps. Once the villagers
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