Train of Life

it's great.
It's funny and real.


Extraordinarily beautiful   June 26, 2002
It was a perfect movie for everyone.It mixed drama, love, and comedy. Everyone will enjoy it because it was well put together, the whole story line and everything. The actors were perfect for their roles and performed them greatly. The movie was spectacular
and it is worth seeing more than once.


The train of life and much more   November 15, 2001
cdswatch (Folsom, CA)
The comparison to Life is Beautiful is inevitable. The only similarity that I can see is that both are a comedy that encompasses the biggest horror in humanity: the Holocaust. Whereas La Vita e Bella is a one-man show, this is a story about a community that has to deal with the crisis in their own unique way.

When the Germans are approaching the little Jewish village in France, the village votes to purchase a train, a German train rather, and a group of the villagers would pretend to be German soldiers accosting the condemned Jews to the concentration camp. On their way to Russia and safety, one thing after another goes bad, there is the dissension in the rank by the "Communist Jews", there are a French soldiers who really think that the train is a real German train and try to bomb it to save the Jews. Then they meet up with real German soldiers and the adventure continues. Whether they make it or not, you would have to watch it yourself, I won't ruin your ending.

The comedy is rather heavy-handed, along with the amusing adventure, you learn about the passengers, their hopes and dreams. At times it almost falls into drama while quickly making a retreat back to the comedic genre. A light-hearted comedy this is not, at every misadventure they come to, as an audience, your heart jumps along. You wonder if they will make it past this obstacle. You predict that they will, since it is a comedy after all, then again you probably remember how Life is Beautiful ends. Can you really make a pure comedy out of such tragedy?

This is the aspect that keeps the movie rolling. The anticipation of what is going to happen next. The movie contains enough moments to keep you laughing. However, it is during the moments when nothing happens and the passengers deal with their own issues, that the movie gets interesting.


Humorous movie with an interesting ending.   March 30, 2001
I watched this movie in my French class, and I thought it would be boring like other movies we have seen, but I was wrong. The Train of Life is about a group of Jewish people who want to escape to Palestine to flee from the Germans. They end up taking a train, and I really can't say much more because I would ruin it. What I will say, though, is the ending is completely unexpected, and there was lots of humor in the movie, too.