Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) Scene 19 Summary

  • The Jews are loaded onto trains heading to the concentration camp. To protect his son, Guido continues to pretend this is part of the trip he's planned.
  • Dora arrives at the train station and talks with the officer in charge, claiming there must have been a mistake.
  • The officer checks the manifest and says, nope, no mistake.
  • Dora tells him to stop the train so she can get on, and the officer complies.
  • Guido and Joshua watch Dora get on the train. Joshua is excited his mother made it, Guido not so much.