Īfter a short comparison of the characters, the setting and time I will continue with the problems a family have when living a life in exile. It was also the winner at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 and it won the Best Jewish Experience Award at the Jerusalem International Film Festival. The romantic fairy tale “Life Is Beautiful” won Academy Awards for Best Music and Best Foreign Language Film and Benigni won Best Actor for his role. Therefore I will concentrate both as well on the shared features as on the distinct ones. These two personal statements of Judith Kerr and Roberto Benigni already show that their works are a bit different. In the following pages I want to show the similarities and differences between the book “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” by Judith Kerr and Roberto Benigni’s film “Life Is Beautiful”. Wie sollte ich realistisch das zeigen, von dem zu reden ich nicht einmal den Mut hatte? Es ist so unfassbar, dass es fast wieder einfach ist, glauben zu machen, dass das alles nur ein Spiel war. Edgar Allan Poe sagte, dass man am Rande des Abgrunds nicht hinunterschaut, weil der Schrecken unermesslich ist. Man darf dort nichts Realistisches suchen. It was so different from the way they grew up that I wanted them to know about it, and I wanted also to explain that it wasn’t nearly as horrific as it sounded. The novels also were written for my children, but deal with my own childhood as a refugee from Hitler, first in Switzerland and France, later in England during the war.
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