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Guido acts as the translator for a German who is barking orders at the inmates, freely translating them into Italian designed to quiet his son's fears. The first one to get 1,000 points will win a tank-not a toy tank but a real one, which Joshua can drive all over town. It is all an elaborate game, he explains. In the camp, Guido constructs an elaborate fiction to comfort and protect his son. Dora, not Jewish, would be spared by the Fascists, but insists on coming along to be with her husband and child. He makes a big show of being terrified that somehow they will miss the train and be left behind. Guido and Joshua are loaded into a train, and Guido instinctively tries to turn it into a game to comfort his son. In 1945, near the end of the war, the Jews in the town are rounded up by the Fascists and shipped by rail to a death camp. Guido and Dora are married and dote on their 5-year-old son Joshua ( Giorgio Cantarini). Mistaken for a school inspector, he invents a quick lecture on Italian racial superiority, demonstrating the excellence of his big ears and superb navel. Dora, a gentile, quickly comes to love him, and in one scene even conspires to meet him on the floor under a banquet table they kiss, and she whispers, "Take me away!" In the town, Guido survives by quick improvisation. Only well into the movie do we even learn the crucial information that Guido is Jewish. And by the fantastic manipulation of carefully planned coincidences, he makes it appear that he is fated to replace the dour Fascist in Dora's life.Īll of this early material, the first long act of the movie, is comedy-much of it silent comedy involving the fate of a much-traveled hat. He makes friends with the German doctor ( Horst Buchholz) who is a regular guest at the hotel and shares his love of riddles. He becomes the undeclared rival of her fiance, the Fascist town clerk.
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He falls in love instantly with the beautiful Dora ( Nicoletta Braschi, Benigni's real-life wife). He arrives in town in a runaway car with failed brakes and is mistaken for a visiting dignitary.