Mike M (mpm13)

An amazing script lead to this Italian film that delicatly balances humor, love and drama into one of the most amazing films ever made. Robero Benigni was perfectly cast as the lead character who protects his son by finding a glimmer of humor in racism. The boy and his parents end up in a Nazi concentration camp and survive by playing their own game.

Danny Kayes greatest comic performance. After being a disaster of an assistant to a gypsy hoaxing people into buying fake elixer, Georgi (Kaye) is set off on his own and mistakenly thought to be the Inspector General. Fearing for their lives, the towns politicians scramble to cover up evidence and offer every accomodation to the thought to be Inspector. On the other side Georgi fears for his life and tries to excape from the town.