Pope John Paul II watched an Italian tragicomedy about the Holocaust in a private screening at the Vatican. “Life Is Beautiful,” a film that focuses on a relationship between a father and a son after they are deported to a concentration camp, is expected to earn at least one Oscar nomination.
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