Sir, - Primo Levi's descriptions of his experiences as an Italian in Auschwitz are a sober antidote to the sentimentality of the popular film Life is Beautiful.
Could a similarly comic tale set during the famine be imagined?
There were no happy endings for most of the millions of Jewish victims of the Nazis' genocide, and Levi wrote of the shame felt by many survivors.
This film is a disgrace; respect is due from the members of a civilised society towards the memory of those who perished.-Yours, etc.,
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John Hughes, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.