> The film tells the story of a German circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for mocking Adolf Hitler and is then forced to lure children to their deaths as punishment.
How do you pitch that?
How do you pitch that?
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was a living memory for most adults, including Mr Lewis who was Jewish.
How do you help people remember? By showing the horror.
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> In 1997, Italian director Roberto Benigni won Oscars for “Life is Beautiful,” about a father who uses humor to comfort his young son when they are imprisoned in a concentration camp. ”Benigni stole the idea from me, but he did it well,” Lewis adds.
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Yes that’s different.
Both are about humourous men keeping children happy in a concentration camp, with the dark irony that they know (and the children do not) what is to happen.
Using exactly the text you quoted. Since it's about Hitler, Nazi and camps the TV channel ARTE will fund it in a heartbeat. (The current top movie on arte.tv/fr/videos/cinema is "Lili Marleen, un chant d'amour dans l'Allemagne nazie)