Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Train of Life...
...foreign film opens today across the country, and to some it might seem oddly familiar. Winner of numerous international film awards, including Italy's prestigious Donotello for Best Foreign Language Film and the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Train of Life is yet another foray into the human condition during the events of World War II. Director and writer Radu Mihaileanu presents the humorous story of an Eastern European Jewish shtetl (village) and its fantastic escape from the Nazis on a fake deportation train they build themselves. Never mind that it was historically impossible for such an event to have...
...have referred to Train of Life as "a metaphor for life itself." What does the ending imply for life...
...Mihaileanu: As long as we don't forget those people, the people on the train, they will never die. "Don't let me forget their eyes, because I will become crazy," says Shlomo. As long as we don't forget them, the barbarians won't succeed. And if you forget Shlomo, he will die. It is the audience who chooses whether he lives or dies...
...gift and we should live it 100%. We should always keep our humor--it is the manifestation of life. We need to keep the humor and our identity and memory, our culture and people, and we need to open our arms and spirit to other people. That train, for me, is all of humanity. We are starting from a specific segment of humanity, but all the problems they have are the same ones we all have. We all have the same problems...