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which role that's why I request you friends to watch this video till the end so let's start the video Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zen it is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Arc by Thomas keny the film follows Oscar skler a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly polish Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II it stars Liam niss as skler Ralph Fen as SS officer Ammon girth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant it's hack Stern ideas for a film about the skand Juden skler Jews were proposed as early as 19 63 P de Ferber one of the skler Juden made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's story Spielberg became interested when executive Sydney shanberg sent him a book review of Skyler's Arc Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel but Spielberg unsure if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust tried to pass the project to several directors before deciding to direct it himself principal photography took place in krackow Poland over 72 days in 1993 Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the film as a documentary cinematographer Janus Kaminsky wanted to create a sense of timelessness John Williams composed the score and violinist iack Pearlman performed the main theme Schindler's List premiered on November 30th 1993 in Washington DC and was released on December 15th 1993 in the United States often listed among the greatest films ever made the film received widespread critical Acclaim for its tone acting atmosphere score cinematography and Spielberg's Direction it was also a box office success earning 322.212 million budget it was nominated for 12 awards at the 66th Academy Awards and 1 s including best picture the film won numerous other Awards including seven baftas and three Golden Globes in 2007 the American Film Institute ranked skinder list eth on its list of the 100 greatest American films the film was deemed culturally historically or aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the US national film registry movie plot in Kow during World War II the Nazis forced local po Jews into the overcrowded krackow ghetto Oscar skler a German Nazi party member from Czechoslovakia arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune he bribes verok German armed forces and SS officials acquiring a factory to produce enamelware skler hires its hack Stern a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business Community he handles Administration and helps skler arrange financing Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible were deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration camps or killed meanwhile skinder maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys his new wealth and status as an industrialist SS unterer furra second Lieutenant Amon goth arrives in Krakow to oversee construction of the plaso Concentration Camp when the camp is ready he orders the ghetto liquidated 2,000 Jews are transported to PLO and 2,000 others are killed in the streets by the SS skler Witnesses the massacre and is profoundly affected he particularly notices a young girl in a red coat who hides from the Nazis and later sees her body on a wagon load of corpses skler is careful to maintain his friendship with girth and continues to enjoy SS support mostly through bribery girth brutalizes his Jewish made Helen Hirsch and randomly shoots people from the balcony of his Villa the prisoners are in constant fear for their lives as time passes Schindler's Focus shifts from making money to trying to save as many lives as possible to better protect his workers skler bribes girth into allowing him to build a sub camp at his Factory as the Germans begin losing the war Goff is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at PLO to aitz concentration camp skler asks gof for permission to move his workers to a Munitions Factory he plans to build in brunets near his hometown of zow girth reluctantly agrees but charges a huge bribe skinder and Stern prepare a list of people to be transferred to brunets instead of aitz the list eventually includes one 100 names as the Jewish workers are transported by train to brunets the women and girls are mistakenly redirected to awit berkano skler bribes Rudolph hurse the commandant of awit for their release at the new Factory skinder forbids the SS guards from entering the production area without permission and encourages the Jews to observe the sabbath over the next 7 months he spends his fortune bribing Nazi officials and buying shell casings from other companies due to Schindler's minations the factory produces no usable armaments he runs out of money in 1945 just as Germany surrenders as a Nazi party member and war profiteer skler must flee the advancing Red Army to avoid capture the SS guards at the factory have been ordered to kill the Jewish Workforce but skler persuades them not to do so bidding farewell to his workers he prepares to Head West hoping to surrender to the Americans the workers give him a signed statement attesting to his role in Saving Jewish lives and present him with a ring engraved with a talmudic quotation whoever saves One Life Saves the World entire skler breaks down in tears feeling he should have done more and is comforted by the workers before he and his wife leave in their car when the skel ajudan awaken the next morning a mounted Soviet officer announces that they have been liberated but warns them not to go East because they hate you there the Jews then walk into the countryside an epilog reveals that girth was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed via hanging while Skyler's marriage and businesses failed following the war in the present many of the surviving skall Juden and the actors portraying them visit Skyler's grave and place stones on its marker a traditional Jewish sign of respect for the dead after which Liam Nissan lays Two Roses cast Liam niss as Oscar Skyler Ben Kingsley as its Haack Stern Ralph Fen as Ammon girth Caroline Goodall as Emily Skyler Jonathan seal as PC Ferber emth Davids as Helen Hirsch Mal gorata Jebel as Victoria kosa Mark ivanir as Marcel Goldberg beatric mola as ingred and as Edge sein as Julian Sherer Friedrich Von Thun as Ralph cesera Jersey Noak as investor Norbert Weiser as as Albert hugar Albert Massac as morai walin Michael Gordon as Mr nubone aldona grel as Mrs nbal Yori abrahami as chame Noak Michael Schneider as Judah Dresner Mary Fabian as chaja Dresner Anna mucha as Dana Dresner Addie niton as Mila faerberg Jason W siki as Henry Rosner Bea palich as mansai Rosner Peter p as Leo Rosner Betina cuper as Regina Pearlman gar zor quaz as midc pimper camel Cay as ol Rosner Henrik bista as Mr lewinstein Ezra Dagen as Rabbi Minasha Levert Ramy Huer as Joseph B Elena linon as Diana Rider Kris off LOF as Herman toffle Harry ning as Leo JN W CLA as Paul dag as Doak horovitz Hans Urus man as Julius madri August schurer as Dieter reader Hans Michael reberg as Rudolph hurse Daniel Del Pont as Joseph menel Adam senian as Adam Levy Jos and nickel as Wilhelm cund ludger pis as Joseph lold Olia daosa as the girl in red development PC Ferber one of the skel ajudan made it his life's mission to tell the story of his savior Ferber attempted to produce a biopic of Oscar Schindler with Metro Goldwin mayor MGM in 1963 with Howard riding but the deal fell through in 1982 Thomas kenelly published his historical novel Skyler's Arc which he wrote after a chance meeting with Ferber in Los Angeles in 1980 MAA president Sid shanberg sent director Steven Spielberg a New York Times review of the book Spielberg astounded by Schindler's story jokingly asked if it was true I was drawn to it because of the paradoxical nature of the character he said what would drive a man like this to suddenly take everything he had earned and put it all in the service of saving these lives Spielberg expressed enough interest for Universal Pictures to buy the rights to the novel at their first meeting in Spring 1983 he told Ferber he would start filming in 10 years in the end credits of the film feuerberg is credited as a consultant under the name Leopold pige Spielberg was unsure if he was mature enough to make a film about the Holocaust and the project remained on his guilty conscience Spielberg tried to pass the project to director Roman palansky but he refused Spielberg's offer pansy's mother was killed at aitz and he had lived in and survived the crackout ghetto palansky eventually directed his own Holocaust drama The Pianist 2002 Spielberg also offered the film to Sydney poac and Martin scorsis who was attached to direct Schindler's List in 1988 however Spielberg was unsure of letting scors direct the film as I'd given away a chance to do something for my children and family about the Holocaust Spielberg offered him the chance to direct the 1991 remake of Cape Fear instead scorsis would later admit in an interview that while he believed his version of the film might have been good he had no regrets passing it to Spielberg stating that it would not have been the hit that it became Billy Wilder expressed an interest in directing the film as a memorial to his family most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust 18 Brian dealma also refused an offer to direct Spielberg finally decided to take on the project when he noticed that Holocaust deniers were being given serious consideration by the media with the rise of neo-nazism after the fall of the Berlin Wall he worried that people were too accepting of intolerance as they were in the 1930s Sid shanberg greenlit the film on condition that Spielberg made Jurassic Park first Spielberg later said he knew that once I had directed skler I wouldn't be able to do Jurassic Park the picture was assigned a small budget of 22 million million as Holocaust films are not usually profitable Spielberg forent a salary for the film calling it blood money and believed it would fail in 1983 keny was hired to adapt his book and he turned in a 220 page script his adaptation focused on Schindler's numerous relationships and kenely admitted he did not comess the story enough Spielberg hired Kurt Ludi who had adapted the screenplay of out of Africa to write the next draft ludic gave up almost 4 years later as he found Schindler's change of heart to unbelievable during his time as director scors hired Steven Zen to write a script when he was handed back the project Spielberg found Zan's 115-page draft too short and asked him to extend it to 195 Pages Spielberg wanted more focus on the Jews in the story and he wanted Schindler's transition to be gradual and ambiguous instead of a sudden breakthrough or Epiphany he also extended the ghetto liquidation sequence as he felt very strongly that the sequence had to be almost unwatchable casting Liam niss auditioned as skler early on in the film's development he was cast in December 1992 after Spielberg saw him perform in anac Christi on Broadway Warren Bey participated in a script reading but Spielberg was was concerned that he could not disguise his accent and that he would bring movie star baggage Kevin cner and Mel Gibson expressed interest in portraying skler but Spielberg preferred to cast the relatively unknown niss so that the actor's Star Quality would not overpower the character Nissan felt skler enjoyed outsmarting the Nazis who regarded him as somewhat naive they don't quite take him seriously and he used that to full effect to help him prepare for the role Spielberg showed Nissan film clips of Time Warner CEO Steve Ross who had a Charisma that Spielberg compared to skers he also located a tape of skinder speaking which Nissan studied to learn the correct intonations and Pitch fien was cast as Aon girth after Spielberg viewed his performances in a dangerous man Lawrence after Arabia and Emily brones weing Heights Spielberg said of fen's audition that I saw sexual evil it is all about subtlety there were moments of kindness that would move across his eyes and then instantly run cold fien put on 28 lb 13 kg to play the role he watched historic news reels and talked to Holocaust Survivors who knew girth in portraying him Fen said I got close to his pain inside him is a fractured miserable human being I feel split about him sorry for him he's like some dirty battered doll I was given and that I came to feel peculiarly attached to Dr Samuel J leet and Paul linkowski of the University Libra du bruels describe girth's character in the film as a classic psychopath fien looked so much like girth in costume that when Nila faerberg met him she trembled with fear the character of it Haack Stern played by Ben Kingsley is a composite of the accountant Stern Factory manager AB bankier and girth's personal secretary midc pimper the character serves as Skyler's alter ego and conscience Dustin Hoffman was offered the role but he refused it overall there are 126 speaking Parts in the film thousands of extras were hired during filming Spielberg cast Israeli and polish actors specially chosen for their Eastern European appearance many of the German actors were reluctant to Dawn the SS uniform but some of them later thanked Spielberg for the cathartic experience of performing in the movie halfway through the shoot Spielberg conceived the epilogue where 128 survivors pay their respects at Schindler's grave in Jerusalem The Producers scrambled to find the skel a Juden and fly them in to film the scene filming principal photography began on March 1st 1993 in krakau Poland with a planned schedule of 75 days the crew shot at or near the actual locations though the plasto camp had to be reconstructed in a nearby abandoned quy as modern high-rise Apartments were visible from the site of the original Camp interior shots of the enamelware Factory and krackow were filmed at a similar facility in Al cuses while exterior shots and the scenes on the factory stairs were filmed at the actual Factory the production received permission from polish authorities to film on the grounds of the a birkenau State Museum but objections to filming within the actual death camp were raised by the world Jewish Congress to avoid filming inside the actual death camp the film crew constructed a replica of a portion of the camp just outside the entrance of burino there were some anti-semitic incidents a woman who encountered fien in his Nazi uniform told him the Germans were Charming people they didn't kill anybody who didn't deserve it anti-Semitic symbols were scrawled on billboards near shooting locations while Kingsley nearly entered a brawl with an elderly german-speaking businessman who insulted the Israeli actor Michael Schneider nonetheless Spielberg said that at Passover all the German actors showed up they put on yarm muls and opened up hagadas and the Israeli actors moved right next to them and began explaining it to them and this family of actors sat around and race and culture were just left behind I was hit in the face with my personal life my upbringing my jewishness the stories my grandparents told me about the show and Jewish life came pouring back into my heart I cried all the time Spielberg on his emotional state during the shoot shooting Schindler's List was deeply emotional for Spielberg as the subject matter forced him to confront elements of his childhood such as the anti-Semitism he faced he was surprised that he did not cry while visiting awit instead he found himself filled with outrage he was one of many crew members who could not force themselves to watch during the shooting of the scene where aging Jews are forced to run naked while being selected by Nazi doctors to go to awit Spielberg commented that he felt more like a reporter than a filmmaker he would set up scenes and then watch events unfold almost as though he were witnessing them rather than creating a movie several Act resses broke down when filming the shower scene including one who was born in a concentration camp Spielberg his wife Kate Capshaw and their five children rented a house in Suburban crack Al for the duration of filming he later thanked his wife for rescuing me 92 days in a row when things just got too unbearable Robin Williams called Spielberg to cheer him up given the profound lack of humor on the set Spielberg spent several hours each evening editing Jurassic Park which was scheduled to Premiere in June 1993 Spielberg occasionally used German and Polish language dialogue to create a sense of realism he initially considered making the film entirely in those languages but decided there's too much safety in reading it would have been an excuse for the audience to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else cinematography influenced by the 1985 documentary film show Spielberg decided not to plan the film with storyboards and to shoot it like a documentary 40% of the film was shot with handheld cameras and the modest budget meant the film was shot quickly over 72 days Spielberg felt that this gave the film a spontaneity an edge and it also serves the subject he filmed without using steady cams elevated shots or zoom lenses everything that for me might be considered Ed a safety net this matured Spielberg who felt that in the past he had always been paying tribute to directors such as Cecil be demo or David lean Spielberg decided to use black and white to match the feel of documentary footage of the era cinematographer Janus Kaminsky compared the effect to German expressionism and Italian neorealism Kaminsky said that he wanted to give the impression of timelessness to the film so the audience would not have a sense of when it was made Universal chairman Tom Pollock asked him to shoot the film on a color negative to allow color VHS copies of the film to later be sold but Spielberg did not want to accidentally beautify events however scenes with the girl in the red coat were shot in color and later rotoscoped over by hand to remove all color except for the coat music John Williams who frequently collaborates with Spielberg composed the score for Schindler's List the composer was amazed by the film and felt it would be too challenging he said to Spielberg you need a better composer than I am for this film Spielberg responded I know but they're all dead this hack Pearlman performs the theme on the violin in the scene where the ghetto is being liquidated by the Nazis the folk song oen prees is sung by a children's choir the song was often sung by Spielberg's Grand grandm mother Becky to her grandchildren the clarinet solos heard in the film were recorded by kmer virtuoso Jorah fedan Williams won an Academy Award for best original score for Schindler's List his fifth win selections from the score were released on a soundtrack album release skinder list opened in theaters on December 15th 1993 in the United States and December 25th in Canada its Premiere in Germany was was on March 1st 1994 its S network television premiere was on NBC on February 23rd 1997 shown uncut and without commercials it ranked n three for the week with a 20 931 rting share the highest neelen rating for any film since NBC's broadcast of Jurassic Park in May 1995 the film aired on public television in Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day in 1998 the DVD was released on March 9th 2004 in widescreen and full screen editions on a double-sided disc with the feature film beginning on side a and continuing on side B special features include a documentary introduced by Spielberg also released for both formats was a limited edition gift set which included the widescreen version of the film kenul Le's novel the film's soundtrack on CD a scen type and a photo booklet titled skler list images of the Steven Spielberg film all housed in a plexiglass case the Lazard disc gift set was a limited edition that included the soundtrack the original novel and an exclusive photo booklet as part of its 20th anniversary the film was released on Blu-ray disc on March 5th 2013 the film was digitally remastered in 4k Dolby Vision in Atmos and was reissued into theaters on December 7th 2018 for its 20 2th anniversary the film was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 18th 2018 following the success of the film Spielberg founded the survivors of the show Visual History Foundation a nonprofit organization with the goal of providing an archive for the film testimony of as many survivors of the Holocaust as possible to save their stories he continues to finance that work Spielberg used proceeds from the film to finance several related documentaries including Anne Frank remembered 1995 the Lost Children of Berlin 1996 and the last days 1998 critical response Schindler's List received a claim from both film critics and audiences with Americans such as talk show host Oprah Winfrey and President Bill Clinton urging others to see it world leaders in many countries saw the film and some met personally with Spielberg on Rotten Tomatoes The the film has received an approval rating of 98% based on 135 reviews with an average rating of nine twin titan the website's critical consensus reads Schindler's List Blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tender humanism to create the director's dramatic Masterpiece Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 95 out of 100 based on 30 critics audiences pulled by Cinema mcore gave the film a rare average grade of a Plus on an A plus to f scale Steven skiff of the New Yorker called it the best historical drama about the Holocaust a film that will take its place in cultural history and remain there Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four and described it as Spielberg's best brilliantly acted written directed and seen Ebert named it one of his 10 favorite films of 1993 Terren raferty also with a New Yorker admired The film's Narrative boldness visual audacity and emotional directness he noted the performances of Nissan fien Kingsley and Davids as warranting special praise and calls the scene in the shower at aitz the most terrifying sequence ever filmed in the 2013 edition of his movie and video guide Leonard Malton awarded the picture a four out of four star rating he described the movie as a staggering adaptation of Thomas Ken's bestseller with such frenzied pacing that it looks and feels like nothing Hollywood has ever made before Spielberg's most intense and personal film to date James Vernier of the Boston Herald noted the film's restraint and lack of sensationalism and called it a major addition to the body of work about the Holocaust in his review for the New York Review of Books British critic John gross said his misgivings that the story would be overly sentimentalized were altogether misplaced Spielberg shows a firm moral and emotional grasp of his material the film is an outstanding achievement mince notes that even the film's harshest critics admire the visual Brilliance of the 15-minute segment depicting the liquidation of the krackow ghetto he describes the sequence as realistic and stunning he points out that the film has done much to increase Holocaust remembrance and awareness as the remaining survivors pass away severing the last living links with a catastrophe the film's release in Germany led to widespread discussion about why most Germans did not do more to help criticism of the film also appeared mostly from Academia rather than the popular press Sarah Horowitz points out that much of the Jewish activity seen in the ghetto consists of financial transactions such as lending money trading on the black Market or hiding wealth thus perpetuating a stereotypical view of Jewish Life horovitz notes that while the depiction of women in the film accurately reflects Nazi ideology the low status of women and the link between violence and sexuality is not explored further history professor bardoff of Brown University notes that the physically large and strongly drawn characters of skler and girth overshadow the Jewish victims who are depicted as small scurrying and frightened a mere backdrop to the struggle of good versus evil Horowitz points out that the film's dichotomy of absolute good versus absolute evil glosses over the fact that most Holocaust perpetrators were Ordinary People the movie does not explore how the average German rationalized their knowledge of or participation in the Holocaust author Jason Epstein commented that the movie gives the false impression that if people were smart enough or lucky enough they could survive the Holocaust Spielberg responded to criticism that Schindler's breakdown as he says farewell is too modlin and even out of character by pointing out that the scene is needed to drive home the sense of loss and to allow the viewer an opportunity to mourn alongside the characters on the screen bov wrote that the positively repulsive kitch of the last two scenes seriously undermines much of the film's previous merits he describes the humanization of Skyler as banal and is critical of what he describes as the Zionist closure set to the song Jerusalem of Gold box office the film gross 96.1 million $23 million in $223 in the United States and Canada and over $ 321.218 in Germany the film was viewed by over 100,000 people in its first week alone from 48 screens and was eventually shown in 500 theaters including 80 paid for by municipal authorities with a total of 6 million Admissions and a gross of $38 million its 25th anniversary showings gross $551,000 in Wy 29 theaters accolades Spielberg won the Director's Guild of America award for outstanding directing feature film for his work 126 and shared the producers Guild of America Award for best theatrical motion picture with co-producers Branco lustig and Gerald R Mullen Steven Zen won The Writers Guild of America Award for best adapted screenplay the film also won the national board of review for best film along with the National Society of film critics for best film Best Director best supporting actor and best cinematography awards from the New York film critic Circle were also won for best film best supporting actor and best cinematographer the Los Angeles Film critics Association awarded the film for best film best cinematography tied with the piano and best production design the film also won numerous other Awards and nominations worldwide Schindler's List movie review Oscar skler would have been an easier man to understand if he'd been a conventional hero fighting for his beliefs the fact that he was flawed a drinker a gambler a womanizer driven by greed and a lust for high living makes his life an enigma here is a man who saw his chance at the beginning of World War II and moved to Nazi occupied Poland to open a factory and employ Jews at starvation wages his goal was to become a millionaire by the end of the war he had risked his life and spent his fortune to save those Jews and had defrauded the Nazis for months with a Munitions Factory that never produced a single usable shell why did he change what happened to turn him from a victimizer into a humanitarian it is to the great credit of Steven Spielberg that his film skinder list does not even attempt to answer that question any possible answer would be too simple an insult to the mystery of Schindler's life the Holocaust was a vast evil engine set whirling by racism and Madness skler outsmarted it in his own little corner of the war but he seems to have had no plan to have improvised out of impulses that remained unclear even to himself in this movie the best he has ever made Spielberg treats the fact of the Holocaust and the Miracle of Schindler's feet without the easy formulas of fiction the movie is 184 minutes long and like all great movies it seems too short it begins with skinder Liam niss a tall strong man with an intimidating physical presence he dresses expensively and frequents nightclubs buying caviar and champagne for Nazi officers and their girls and he likes to get his picture taken with the top brass he wears a Nazi party emblem proudly in his button hole he has impeccable Black Market contacts and he's able to find nylons cigarettes Brandy he is the right man to know the authorities are happy to help him open a factory to build enameled cooking utensils that Army kitchens can use he is happy to hire Jews because their wages are lower and skler will get richer that way Schindler's genius is in bribing scheming conning he knows nothing about running a factory and Finds Its Haack Stern Ben Kingsley a Jewish accountant to handle that side of things Stern moves through the streets of kraal hiring Jews for skinder because the factory is a protected War Industry a job there may guarantee longer life the relationship between skler and Stern is developed by Spielberg with enormous subtlety at the beginning of the war skinder wants only to make money and at the end he wants only to save his Jews we know that Stern understands this but there is no moment when skinder and Stern bluntly State what is happening perhaps because to say certain things aloud could result in death this subtlety is Spielberg's strength all through the film his screenplay by Steven alien based on the novel by Thomas kenelly isn't based on contrived melodrama instead Spielberg relies on a series of incidents seen clearly and without artificial manipulation and by witnessing those incidents we understand what little can be known about skinder and his scheme we also see the Holocaust in a vivid and terrible way Spielberg gives us a Nazi prison camp commandant named goth Ralph Fen who is a study in the stupidity of evil from the verenda of his Villa overlooking the prison yard he shoots Jews for target practice skler is able to talk him out of this custom with an appeal to his vanity so obvious it is almost an insult goth is one of those weak Hypocrites who upholds an ideal but makes himself an exception to it he preaches the death of the Jews and then chooses a pretty one named Helen hirsh emth Davids to be his maid and falls in love with her he does not find it monstrous that her people are being exterminated and she is spared on his affectionate whim he sees his personal needs as more important than right or wrong life or death studying him we realize that Nazism depended on people able to think like Jeffrey dmer shooting in black and white on many of the actual locations of the events in the story including Skyler's original Factory and even the gates of awit Spielberg shows skler dealing with the madness of of the Nazi system he bribes he weedles he Bluffs he escapes Discovery by the skin of his teeth in the movie's most audacious sequence when a trainload of his employees is mistakenly routed to owitz he walks into the death camp himself and brazenly talks the authorities out of their victims snatching them from death and putting them back on the train to his Factory what is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story the movie is brilliantly acted written directed and seen individual scenes are masterpieces of art Direction cinematography special effects crowd control yet Spiel bird The Stylist whose films often have gloried in shots we are intended to notice and remember disappears into his work n Kingsley and the other actors are devoid of acting flourishes there is a single-mindedness to the Enterprise that is awesome at the end of the film there is a sequence of overwhelming emotional impact involving the actual people who were saved by skinder we learned that skinder Jews and their descendants today number about 6,000 and that the Jewish population of Poland is 4,000 the obvious lesson would seem to be that skler did more than a whole nation to spare its Jews that would be too simple the film's message is that one man did something while in the face of the Holocaust others were paralyzed perhaps it took a skler enigmatic and Reckless without a plan heedless of risk a con man to do what he did no rational man with a sensible plan would have gotten as far the French author flert once wrote that he disliked Uncle Tom's Cabin because the author was constantly preaching against slavery does one have to make observations about slavery he asked depict it that's enough and then he added an author in his book must be like God in the universe present everywhere and visible nowhere that would describe Spielberg the author of this film he depicts the evil of the Holocaust and he tells an incredible story of how it was robbed of some of its intended victims he does so without the tricks of his trade the directorial and dramatic contrivances that would Inspire the usual melodramatic payoffs Spielberg is not visible in this film but his restraint and passion are present in every shot other information about this film after several attempts at making a fully realized mature film St Spielberg has finally put it all together in Schindler's List a remarkable work by any standard this searing historical and biographical drama about a Nazi industrialist who saved someone n100 Jews from certain death in the concentration camps evinces an artistic rigor and unsentimental intelligence unlike anything the world world 's most successful filmmaker has demonstrated before marked by a brilliant screenplay exceptionally Supple technique three staggeringly good lead performances and an attitude toward the traumatic subject matter that is both passionately felt and impressively restrained this is the film to win over Spielberg Skeptics how the general public will take to a 3-hour 15minute black and white epic about the Holocaust with no major stars is another matter even with the cards of conventional wisdom stacked against it top reviews off entertainment page coverage possible Awards and the Spielberg name should stir enough interest to turn release into an event elevating it to mustsee status for Discerning audiences worldwide the gamble should pay off financially as well as artistically besides being familiar the Nazi persecution of the Jews is perilous subject matter since it can so easily elicit automatic reactions of moral outrage rage personal horror religious self-righteousness and dramatic extremes not to mention severe depression taking their cue from Australian writer Thomas Ken's 1982 book of the same name Spielberg and cerist Steven Zen have overcome the problem of familiarity by presenting innumerable details of this Grim history that are utterly fresh and previously unexplored at least in mainstream films and they have triumphed over the most obvious potential pitfall s by keeping as their main focus a man whose mercenary instincts only gradually turned him into an unlikely hero and savior Oscar Schindler the imposing impeccably groomed Liam niss is masterfully introduced in a Rowdy nightclub sequence that instantly builds interest and Mystique around him as he curries favor with the Nazis who have completed their lightning conquest of Poland in September 1939 with Jews being registered and entering krackow at the rate of 10,000 per week Nazi party member skler arranges to run a major company that will be staffed by unpaid Jews its hack Stern Ben Kingsley becomes his accountant and right-hand man and helps build the concern into a major supplier of pots pans and cookware for troops at the front in near documentary fashion and often using a dizzyingly mobile handheld camera Spielberg who operated his own camera for many of these sequences deafly sketches The Descent of the Jews from Refugee settlers in krackow to their confinement within 16 square blocks by 1941 to the creation of a plaso forced labor camp in 1942 to the brutal liquidation of the ghetto the following year in fascinating detail and using a plethora of vivid characters the film shows how the black market worked how previously well Todo families were forced into miserable dwellings how the Juden rat Jews nominally empowered by the the Germans oversaw and carried out Nazi law how some managed to survive and others didn't in these sequences the seed is planted for one of the pictures superbly developed great themes that the matter of who lived and died was completely utterly existentially arbitrary as one of the characters observes the casualness and randomness of Nazi cruelty was such that at no point could one develop a strategy for survival there was no safe way to behave and even extreme cleverness couldn't save you in the long run all morality Justice and personal worth was erased with the clearing of krackow most of the action shifts to the labor camp which is set in an extraordinary location at the base of a cliff looming above it is the opulent shadow of commandant Ammon goeth Ralph Fen from which invited revelers can look down upon the prisoners during glittering parties and in shocking scenes that again are unlike anything previously scene from the balcony of which the commandant randomly shoots helpless inmates as if taking target practice the commandant is a fascinating creation as evil as any Nazi presented on screen over the past 50 years but considerably more complex and human than most he is deeply and he admits disturbingly attracted to the young Jewish woman he keeps as his personal maid tellingly both he and skler drink a great deal but goth admires skler for not unlike him being a drunk that's control he says and control is power skler must use utmost diplomacy in dealing with goth and other top ranking Nazis in order to get his way gently suggesting that their murderous policies are bad for business and that to bestow a pardon confers even greater power on a ruler than constantly meeting out death skler is permitted to continue operating his krackow Factory as a subcamp which becomes a virtual Haven for hundreds of Jews in that they are basically assured they won't die there still with the final solution being implemented with ever greater dispatch by 1944 skler must finally buy with his tremendous War profits the leftover Jews to prevent them from being shipped to awit in a harrowing sequence women he has arranged to rescue wind up at the extermination camp by mistake for skinder as well as the Jews it remains a question of which will last longer his money or the war after listening to Churchill's announcement of the German surrender skler delivers an extraordinary speech of his own in the presence of both Nazi guards and Jewish workers before fleeing with nothing more than a suitcase throughout the mesmerizing narrative so masterfully orchestrated in Zan's faultlessly intelligent screenplay there are many opportunities for heart tugging obvious plays for sympathy and Hate modlin sentiments and cheap indulgences not only because Spielberg resisted every one of them but also because this film is so different and so much tougher than anything else he's done if not forewarned as to its director's identity even a well schooled critic could watch virtually the entire picture and never suspect it was Spielberg on reflection some of the themes relating to greed corruption and inadvertent heroism have been present in his work from early on but nothing before has been anywhere near this deep or resonant images moments and scenes stay in the mind and become even stronger well after viewing the film despite its 3 1 forh hour length the film moves forward with great urgency and is not a minute too long for the story it is telling and the amount of information it imparts it is naturally full of violence and death but Spielberg makes this both memorable and somehow bearable by staging it all with abrupt shocking suddenness which adds to the feeling of arbitrariness this is not strictly speaking a concentration camp movie but a densely woven personal drama with the most striking of historical backdrops which is what will get mainstream audiences through it the only debatable choice is the brief color epilogue which depicts many of the surviving skler Jews filing by his grave in Israel accompanied for the most part by the much younger actors who have portrayed them in the film this will have many viewers crying their eyes out but it also smacks on a certain level of direct emotional manipulation the only such instance in the work another device that uses color is also questionable that of a little girl whom skler notices and whose red coat stands out against the prevailing black and white what this is supposed to signify is anyone's guess although it's so minor that it doesn't matter from top to bottom the performances from the enormous cast are impeccable whereas most major Stars would have wanted to tip the audience off early on that skinder was actually a sensitive caring guy Underneath It All Nissan leaves no doubt through most of the film that his character was driven foremost by profit in a superlative performance Nissan makes skler a fascinating but highly ambiguous figure effectively persuasive and manipulative in one-on-one scenes where he's determined to get what he wants and finally rising to dramatic Heights with his courageous and stirring farewell speech Kingsley must act within much more rigid constraints as his trusted accountant Stern a man who feels he must never make a misstep role is reminiscent of Alec Guinness deluded Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Quai in his compulsion to do a perfect job for skler he often seems to forget that he's working for the enemy the extraordinary fien creates an indelible character in Goth with Ponch hanging out and eyes filled with disgust both for his victims and himself he's like a minor league Roman Emperor gone sour with excess a man in whom too much power and debauchery have crushed anything that might once have been good the dozens of small roles many of which figure in the action only briefly have been superbly filled by faces that invariably register immediately and with terrific effect iveness shot mostly on location in Poland the picture captures in exceptional detail the nightmare world of 50 years ago Alan starsky's production design Blends imperceptibly with natural locations this is a film that could have been made only in black and white and yet it is solely because of Spielberg's commercial stature that it was able to be made that way lensing by Janice Kaminsky a young Polish American cinematographer whose previous credits in include the adventures of Huck Finn Diane Keaton's made for cable Wildflower and some Roger Corman efforts is outstanding lighting is mostly very simple camera moves are agile and perceptive and pallet features Many Shades of Gray rather than high contrast black and white Michael Khan's editing moves with Dynamic swiftness when desired and holds on scenes when required making the running time seem shorter John Williams score is a typical especially in the context of his work for Spielberg as it's low-key Soulful and Fleck with ethnic flavors dedicated to the late Time Warner chairman Steve Ross Schindler's List has a deep emotional impact that is extraordinarily well served and balanced by its intelligence historical perspective and film making expertise more details there have been numerous documentaries and dramatic Productions focusing on the Holocaust including a television miniseries which many consider to be the definitive work as a result in deciding to film Skyler's list director Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park set an imposing task for himself his vision needed to differ from that of the filmmakers who preceded him yet the finished product had to remain faithful to the unforgettable images which represent the legacy of 6 million massacred Jews those who see this motion picture will witness Spielberg's success the film opens in September of 1939 in Krakow Poland with the Jewish Community under increasing pressure from the Nazis into this tumult comes Oscar skler Liam niss a Nazi businessman interested in obtaining Jewish backing for a factory he wishes to build he makes contact with its hack Stern Ben Kingsley an accountant to arrange financial matters for a while there is no interest and nothing happens March 1941 the krackow Jewish Community has been forced to live in the ghetto where money no longer has any meaning several Elders agree to invest in Schindler's Factory and the deaf Deutsch email wear fabric is born a place where large quantities of pots are manufactured to do the work skinder hires Jews because they're cheaper than poles and the German Army becomes his biggest customer March 1943 Germany's intentions towards the Jews are no longer a secret the ghetto is liquidated with the survivors being herded into the PLO forced labor camp many are executed and still others are shipped Away by train never to return during this time skler has managed to ingratiate himself with the local Commander Ammon goth Ral Fen a Nazi who kills Jews for sport using his relationship with goth skinder begins to secretly campaign to help the Jews saving men women and children children from certain death Spielberg elected to film this Motion Picture in black and white and it's impossible to argue with his choice Director of Photography Janus Kaminsky has made effective use of Shadow and light meticulously limiting the application of hue the opening scene is in color as is the closing sequence which features the surviving skler Jews each accompanied by the actor who played their character placing a stone on their savior's grave there are also two instances when color is allowed to bleed into the blacks whites and Grays one little girl's jacket appears red so that she stands out from the masses and a pair of candles burn with orange Flames when color is used it makes a point and an impression Schindler's List gives us three major stories and a host of minor ones first and foremost it tells the tale of the Holocaust presenting new images of old Horrors these are as ghastly and realistic as anything previously filmed and Spielberg emphasizes the brutality of the situation by not pulling punches when it comes to gore the blood in Kai rather than Crimson in Stark black and white fountains when men and women are shot in the head or through the neck the second story is that of Oscar skler the Nazi businessman who saved 1,00 Jews from Death skler starts out as a self-centered manufacturer concerned only about making money he hires Jews because they're cheap not because he likes them but his perspective changes and he risks losing everything to save as many lives as he can his eventual lament that he couldn't save more is heartbreaking the third story belongs to Amon goth the Nazi commander of krackow a man who Teeters on the brink of Madness despite his intense hatred for Jews he is inexplicably attracted to his Jewish housekeeper Helen HS emth Davids disgusted by his feelings he lashes out at her with a display of violence that is almost scores likee in its blunt presentation as written goth could easily have become a conscienceless monster but Spielberg Works carefully to show unexpected depth and complexity to his character often the experiences of the minor characters provide the most lasting images Helen's story is memorable as is the plight of young Dona Dresner and and her mother as they strive to avoid death while staying together there's a Jewish couple that marries in the plazo camp even though their chances of survival are dim and a rabbi who survives a close encounter with a Nazi gun of course the Holocaust images are Grim but scenes of mass Graves and exed bodies are not unique to Schindler's List while it's impossible to deny their power potentially more dubing are the instances of callous individual murder Spielberg doesn't spare his audience when it comes to sudden violence or the dehumanizing factors involved in such events after all Jews were viewed as Vermin Schindler's List is replete with moments like this the acting is uniformly excellent Liam Nissan's skler is shown in all his complexity and his transformation is played with studied control this is no sudden reversal of philosophy but a matter of conscience that slowly Dawns on the man with a keen sense of Schindler's character niss depicts the metamorphosis from self-centered businessman to driven Messiah Ben Kingsley whose Gandhi transfixed audiences years ago has the movie's most understated role W that he acts with simple sincerity equally as impressive is emth Davids who snares the viewers attention during her limited screen time as Helen Hirsch the object of Ammon Go's Twisted affection speaking of goth Ralph Fen stuns with his intricate Savage portrayal of the Nazi Commander a man fascinated by power and murder fen's goth has the rare ability to both Mesmerize and repulse and this is a performance that will long be remembered despite the grizzly subject matter this movie is essentially about uncovering a kernel of Hope and dignity in the midst of a monstrous tragedy the story of Oscar Schindler's sacrifices for the Jews sets this apart from other Holocaust drama uncompromising in its portrayal of good evil and all the shades in between Schindler's List offers a clear view of human nature laid bare hatred greed lust Envy anger and most important of all empathy and love because this film touches us so deeply the catharsis has a power that few if any other moments in film history can match and that's what establishes this as a Transcendent Motion Picture experience Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zen it is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Arc by Thomas keny the film follows Oscar skler a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly polish Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II it stars Liam niss as skinder Ralph Fen as SS officer Ammon girth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant it's hack Stern ideas for a film about the skandal Juden skler Jews were proposed as early as 1963 PA de Ferber one of the skandal Juden made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's story Spielberg became interested when executive Sydney shanberg sent him a book review of skander's Arc Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel but Spielberg unsure if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust tried to pass the project to several directors before deciding to direct it himself principal photography took place in Krakow Poland over 72 days in 1993 Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the film as a documentary cinematographer Janus Kaminsky wanted to create a sense of timelessness John Williams composed the score and violinist iack Pearlman performed the main theme Schindler's List premiered on November 30th 1993 in Washington DC and was released on December 15th 1993 in the United States often listed among the greatest films ever made the film received widespread critical Acclaim for its tone acting atmosphere score cinematography and Spielberg's Direction it was also a box office success earning $ 322.212 worldwide on a $22 million budget it was nominated for 12 awards at the 66th Academy Awards and 1 s including best picture the film won numerous other Awards including seven baftas and three Golden Globes in 2007 the American Film Institute ranked skinder list eighth on its list of the 100 greatest American films the film was deemed culturally historically or aesthetically significant by the Li Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the US national film registry movie plot in krackow during World War II the Nazis forced local polish Jews into the overcrowded krackow ghetto Oscar skler a German Nazi party member from Czechoslovakia arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune he bribes verm German armed forces and SS officials acquiring a factory to produce enamelware skler hires its Haack Stern a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business Community he handles Administration and helps skler arrange financing Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible were deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration camps or killed meanwhile Skyler maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys his new wealth and status as an industrial IST SS unterer furra second Lieutenant Amon goth arrives in krakau to oversee construction of the plaso Concentration Camp when the camp is ready he orders the ghetto liquidated 2,000 Jews are transported to PLO and 2,000 others are killed in the streets by the SS skinder Witnesses the massacre and is profoundly affected he particularly notices a young girl in a red coat who hides from the Nazis and later sees her body on a wagon load of corpses skler is careful to maintain his friendship with girth and continues to enjoy SS support mostly through bribery girth brutalizes his Jewish made Helen Hirsch and randomly shoots people from the balcony of his Villa the prisoners are in constant fear for their lives as time passes Schindler's Focus shifts from making money to trying to save as many lives as possible to better protect his workers skler bribes girth into allowing him to build a sub camp at his Factory as the Germans begin losing the war goth is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at PLO to aitz concentration camp skler asks Goff for permission to move his workers to a munition factory he plans to build in brunets near his hometown of zow girth reluctantly agrees but charges a huge bribe skinder and Stern prepare a list of people to be transferred to brunets instead of aitz the list eventually includes one 100 names as the Jewish workers are transported by train to brunets the women and girls are mistakenly redirected to aitz burino skler bribes Rudolph hurse the commandant of awit for their release at the new Factory Schindler forbids the SS guards from entering the production area without permission and encourages the Jews to observe the sabbath over the next 7 months he spends his fortune bribe in Nazi officials and buying shell casings from other companies due to Schindler's minations the factory produces no usable Armament he runs out of money in 1945 just as Germany surrenders as a Nazi party member and war profiteer skler must flee the advancing Red Army to avoid capture the SS guards at the factory have been ordered to kill the Jewish Workforce but skler persuades them not to do so bidding farewell to his workers he prepares to Head West hoping to surrender to the Americans the workers give him a signed statement attesting to his role in Saving Jewish lives and present him with a ring engraved with a talmudic quotation whoever saves One Life Saves the World entire skler breaks down in tears feeling he should have done more and is comforted by the workers before he and his wife leave in their car when the skandal ajudan awakened the next morning a mount Soviet officer announces that they have been liberated but warns them not to go East because they hate you there the Jews then walk into the countryside an epilogue reveals that girth was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed via hanging while Skyler's marriage and businesses failed following the war in the present many of the surviving skand Juden and the actors portraying them visit Skyler's grave and plac stones on its marker a traditional Jewish sign of respect for the dead after which Liam niss lays Two Roses cast Liam niss as Oscar Skyler Ben Kingsley as its Haack Stern Ralph Fen as Ammon girth Caroline Goodall as Emily Schindler Jonathan seal as PC Ferber emth Davids as Helen Hirsch malgor Jebel as Victoria closa Mark ivanir as Marcel Goldberg beatric mola as ingred andz Edge sein as Julian Sherer Friedrich Von Thun as Ralph cesera Jersey Noak as investor Norbert Weiser as Albert huar Albert Massac as morai walon Michael Gordon as Mr nbone aldona grotel as Mrs nbal Yuri abrahami as Cham Noak Michael Schneider as Judah Dresner Mary Fabian as chaja Dresner Anna mucha as Dana Dresner Addie niton as Mila faerberg jask W siki as Henry Rosner Bea palich as mansai Rosner Peter pul as Leo Rosner batina cuper as Regina Perman gar zor quaz as midc pimper camel Cay as ol Rosner Henrik bista as Mr larenstein Ezra Dagen as Rabbi Minasha levertov Ramy Hubert as Joseph ba Elena linon as Diana Rider KR zof LT as Herman toffle Harry ning as Leo John wad CLA as liik Paul dag as Doak horovitz Hans jurgus man as Julius madri August schurer as Dieter reader Hans Michael reberg as Rudolf Hur Daniel Del Pont as Joseph meno Adam senian as Adam Le J and nickel as Wilhelm cund ludger piser as Joseph lold Olia daosa as the girl in red development PC faerberg one of the skel of judan made it his life's mission to tell the story of his savior faerberg attempted to produce a biopic of Oscar skler with Metro Goldwin mayor MGM in 1963 with Howard riding but the deal fell through in 1982 Thomas kenelly published his historical novel Schindler's Arc which he wrote after a chance meeting with Ferber in Los Angeles in 1980 maau president Sid shanberg sent director Steven Spielberg a New York Times review of the book Spielberg astounded by Schindler's story jokingly asked if it was true I was drawn to it because of the paradoxical nature of the character he said what would drive a man like this to suddenly take everything he had earned ear and put it all in the service of saving these lives Spielberg expressed enough interest for Universal Pictures to buy the rights to the novel at their first meeting in Spring 1983 he told faerberg he would start filming in 10 years in the end credits of the film faerberg is credited as a consultant under the name Leopold pagee Spielberg was unsure if he was mature enough to make a film about the Holocaust and the project remained on his guilty conscience Spielberg tried to pass the project to director Roman palansky but he refused Spielberg's offer pansy's mother was killed at aitz and he had lived in and survived the krackow ghetto palansky eventually directed his own Holocaust drama The Pianist 2002 Spielberg also offered the film to Sydney poac and Martin scorsis who was attached to direct Schindler's List in 1988 however Spielberg was unsure of letting scores direct the film as I'd given away a chance to do something for my children and family about the Holocaust Spielberg offered him the chance to direct the 1991 remake of Cape Fear instead scors would later admit in an interview that while he believed his version of the film might have been good he had no regrets passing it to Spielberg stating that it would not have been the hit that it became Billy Wilder expressed an interest in directing the film as a memorial to his family most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust 18 Brian dealma also refused an offer to direct Spielberg finally decided to take on the project when he noticed that Holocaust deniers were being given serious consideration by the media with the rise of neo-nazism after the fall of the Berlin Wall he worried that people were too accepting of intolerance as they were in the 1930s Sid shanberg greenlit the film on condition that Spielberg made Jurassic Park first Spielberg later said he knew that once I had directed skinder I wouldn't be able to do Jurassic Park the picture was assigned a small budget of $22 million as Holocaust films are not usually profitable Spielberg forent a salary for the film calling it blood money and believed it would fail in 1983 keny was hired to adapt his book and he turned in a 220 page script his adaptation focused on Schindler's numerous relationships and Kenny admitted he did not compress the story enough Spielberg hired Kurt ludek who had adapted the screenplay of Out of Africa to write the next draft ludek gave up almost four years later as he found Schindler's change of heart too unbelievable during his time as director scorsis hired Steven Zen to write a script when he was handed back the project Spielberg found Zan 's 115 page draft too short and asked him to extend it to 195 Pages Spielberg wanted more focus on the Jews in the story and he wanted Schindler's transition to be gradual and ambiguous instead of a sudden breakthrough or Epiphany he also extended the ghetto liquidation sequence as he felt very strongly that the sequence had to be almost unwatchable casting Liam niss auditioned as skler early on in the film's development he was cast in December 1992 after Spielberg saw him perform in anac Christi on Broadway Warren Bey participated in a script reading but Spielberg was concerned that he could not disguise his accent and that he would bring movie star baggage Kevin Cosner and Mel Gibson expressed interest in portraying skler but Spielberg preferred to cast the relatively unknown Nissan so that the actor's Star Quality would not overpower the character niss felt skler enjoyed outsmarting the Nazis who regarded him as somewhat naive they don't quite take him seriously and he used that to full effect to help him prepare for the role Spielberg showed Nissan film clips of Time Warner CEO Steve Ross who had a Charisma that Spielberg compared to skers he also located a tape of skler speaking which niss studied to learn the correct intonations and Pitch fi was cast as Aon girth after Spielberg viewed his performances in a dangerous man Lawrence after Arabia and Emily brones weing Heights Spielberg said of fen's audition that I saw sexual evil it is all about subtlety there were moments of kindness that would move across his eyes and then instantly run cold fien put on 28 lb 13 kg to play the role he watched historic news reels and talked to Holocaust surv survivors who knew girth in portraying him Fen said I got close to his pain inside him is a fractured miserable human being I feel split about him sorry for him he's like some dirty battered doll I was given and that I came to feel peculiarly attached to doctors Samuel J leet and Paul linkowski of the University Libra du Brook cels describe girth's character in the film as a classic psychopath fien looked so much like girth in costume that when Nila feuerberg met him she trembled with fear the character of its Haack Stern played by Ben Kingsley is a composite of the accountant Stern Factory manager Abraham bankier and girth's personal secretary midc pimper the character serves as Schindler's alter ego and conscience Dustin Hoffman was offered the role but he refused it overall there are 126 speaking Parts in the film thousands of extras were hired during filming Spielberg cast Israeli and polish actors specially chosen for their Eastern European appearance many of the German actors were reluctant to Dawn the SS uniform but some of them later thanked Spielberg for the cathartic experience of performing in the movie halfway through the shoot Spielberg conceived the epilogue where 128 survivors pay their respects at skander's grave in Jerusalem The Producers scrambled to find the skler Juden and fly them in to film the scene filming principal photography began on March 1st 1993 in Krakow Poland with a planned schedule of 75 days the crew shot at or near the actual locations though the plasto camp had to be reconstructed in a nearby abandoned Quarry as modern high-rise Apartments were visible from the site of the original Camp interior shots of the enamelware Factory in krackow were filmed at a similar facility in Al cuses while exterior shots and the scenes on the factory stairs were filmed at the actual Factory the production received permission from polish authorities to film on the grounds of the owitz birkenau State Museum but objections to filming within the actual death camp were raised by the world Jewish Congress to avoid filming inside the actual death camp the film crew constructed a replica of a portion of the camp just outside the entrance of burkel the there were some anti-semitic incidents a woman who encountered fien in his Nazi uniform told him the Germans were Charming people they didn't kill anybody who didn't deserve it anti-semitic symbols were scrawled on billboards near shooting locations while Kingsley nearly entered a brawl with an elderly german-speaking businessman who insulted the Israeli actor Michael Schneider nonetheless Spielberg said that at Passover all the German actors showed up they put on Yul and opened up hagadas and the Israeli actors moved right next to them and began explaining it to them and this family of actors sat around and race and culture were just left behind I was hit in the face with my personal life my upbringing my jewishness the stories my grandparents told me about the show and Jewish life came pouring back into my heart I cried all the time Spielberg on his emotional state during the shoot shooting Schindler's List was deeply emotional for Spielberg as the subject matter forced him to confront elements of his childhood such as the anti-Semitism he faced he was surprised that he did not cry while visiting aitz instead he found himself filled with outrage he was one of many crew members who could not force themselves to watch during the shooting of the scene where aging Jews are forced to run naked while being selected by Nazi doctors to go to awit Spielberg commented that he felt more like a reporter than a filmmaker he would set up scenes and then watch events unfold almost as though he were witnessing them rather than creating a movie several actresses broke down when filming the shower scene including one who was born in a concentration camp Spielberg his wife Kate Capshaw and their five children rented a house in Suburban crack Al for the duration of filming he later thanked his wife for rescuing me 92 days days in a row when things just got too unbearable Robin Williams called Spielberg to cheer him up given the profound lack of humor on the set Spielberg spent several hours each evening editing Jurassic Park which was scheduled to Premiere in June 1993 Spielberg occasionally used German and Polish language dialogue to create a sense of realism he initially considered making the film entirely in those languages but decided there's too much safety in reading it would have been an excuse for the audience to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else cinematography influenced by the 1985 documentary film show Spielberg decided not to plan the film with storyboards and to shoot it like a documentary 40% of the film was shot with handheld cameras and the modest budget meant the film was shot quickly over 72 days Spielberg felt that this gave the film a spontaneity an edge and it also serves the subject he filmed without using steady cams elevated shots or zoom lenses everything that for me might be considered a safety net this matured Spielberg who felt that in the past he had always been paying tribute to directors such as Cecil be deml or David lean Spielberg decided to use black and white to match the feel of documentary footage of the era cinematographers Janus Kaminsky compared the effect to German expressionism and Italian neorealism Kaminsky said that he wanted to give the impression of timelessness to the film so the audience would not have a sense of when it was made Universal chairman Tom Pollock asked him to shoot the film on a color negative to allow color VHS copies of the film to later be sold but Spielberg did not want to accidentally beautify events however scenes with the girl in The Red Coat were shot in color and later rotoscoped over by hand to remove all color except for the coat music John Williams who frequently collaborates with Spielberg composed the score for Schindler's List the composer was amazed by the film and felt it would be too challenging he said to Spielberg you need a better composer than I am for this film Spielberg responded I know but they're all dead it's hack Pearlman performs the theme on the violin in the scene where the ghetto is being liquidated by the Nazis the folk song oan pryes is sung by a children's choir the song was often sung by Spielberg's grandmother Becky to her grandchildren the clarinet solos heard in the film were recorded by kmer virtuoso Jorah fedman Williams won an Academy Award for best original score for Schindler's List his fifth win selections from the score were released on a soundtrack track album release skinder list opened in theaters on December 15th 1993 in the United States and December 25th in Canada its Premiere in Germany was on March 1st 1994 its us network television premiere was on NBC on February 23rd 1997 shown uncut and without commercials it ranked no three for the week with a 20 931 rting share the highest neelon rated for any film since NBC's broadcast of Jurassic Park in May 1995 the film aired on public television in Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day in 1998 the DVD was released on March 9th 2004 in widescreen and full screen editions on a double-sided disc with the feature film beginning on side a and continuing on side B special features include a documentary introduced by Spielberg also released for both formats was a limited edition gift set which included the widescreen version of the film Ken's novel the film soundtrack on CD a scen type and a photo booklet titled Schindler's List images of the Steven Spielberg film all housed in a plexiglass case the Lazard disc gift set was a limited edition that included the soundtrack the original novel and an exclusive photo booklet as part of its 20th anniversary the film was released on Blu-ray disc on March 5th 2013 the film was digitally remastered in 4k Dolby vision and Atmos and was reissued into theaters on December 7th 2018 for its 25th anniversary the film was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 18th 2018 following the success of the film Spielberg founded the survivors of the show Visual History Foundation a nonprofit organization with the goal of providing an archive for the filmed testimony of as many survivors of the Holocaust as possible to save their stories he continues to finance that work Spielberg used proceeds from the film to finance several related documentaries including Anne Frank remembered 1995 the Lost Children of Berlin 1996 and the last days 1998 critical response Schindler's List received a claim from both film critics and audiences with Americans such as talk show host Oprah Winfrey and President Bill Clinton urging others to see it world leaders in many countries saw the film and some met personally with Spielberg on Rotten Tomatoes the film has received an approval rating of 98% based on 135 reviews with an average rating of nine twin titan the website's critical consensus reads Schindler's List Blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tend under humanism to create the director's dramatic Masterpiece Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 95 out of 100 based on 30 critics audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film a rare average grade of a Plus on an A plus to f scale Steven skiff of the New Yorker called it the best historical drama about the Holocaust a film that will take its place in cultural history and remain there Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four and described it as Spielberg's best brilliantly acted written directed and seen Ebert named it one of his 10 favorite films of 1993 Terren raferty also with the New Yorker admired The film's Narrative boldness visual audacity and emotional directness he noted the performances of n fien Kingsley and Davids as warranting special praise and calls the scene in the shower at awit the most terrifying sequence ever filmed in the 2013 edition of his movie and video guide Leonard Malton awarded the picture a four out of four star rating he described the movie as a staggering adaptation of Thomas Ken's bestseller with such frenzied pacing that it looks and feels like nothing Hollywood has ever made before Spielberg's most intense and personal film to date James Vernier of the Boston heral noted the film's restraint and lack of sensationalism and called it a major addition to the body of work about the Holocaust in his review for the New York Review of Books British critic John gross said his misgivings that the story would be overly sentimentalized were altogether misplaced Spielberg shows a firm moral and emotional grasp of his material the film is an outstanding achievement mince notes that even the film's harshest critics admire the visual Brilliance of the 15-minute segment depicting the liquidation of the krackow ghetto he describes the sequence as realistic and stunning he points out that the film has done much to increase Holocaust remembrance and awareness as the remaining survivors pass away severing the last living links with a catastrophe the film's release in Germany led to widespread discussion about why most Germans did not do more to help criticism of the film also appeared most mostly from Academia rather than the popular press Sarah Horowitz points out that much of the Jewish activity seen in the ghetto consists of financial transactions such as lending money trading on the black market or hiding wealth thus perpetuating a stereotypical view of Jewish Life horvitz notes that while the depiction of women in the film accurately reflects Nazi ideology the low status of women and the link between violence and sexuality is not explored further history professor olmer bardoff of Brown University notes that the physically large and strongly drawn characters of skinder and girth overshadow the Jewish victims who are depicted as small scurrying and frightened a mere backdrop to the struggle of good versus evil Horowitz points out that the film's dichotomy of absolute good versus absolute evil glosses over the fact that most Holocaust perpetrators were Ordinary People the movie does not explore how the average German rationalized their knowledge of or participation in the Holocaust author Jason Epstein commented that the movie gives the false impression that if people were smart enough or lucky enough they could survive the Holocaust Spielberg responded to criticism that Schindler's breakdown as he says farewell is too modlin and even out of character by pointing out that the scene is needed to drive home the sense of loss and to allow the viewer an opportunity to mourn alongside the characters on the screen bardav wrote that the positively repulsive kitch of the last two scenes seriously undermines much of the film's previous merits he describes the humanization of skinder as banal and is critical of what he describes as the Zionist closure set to the song Jerusalem of Gold box office the film gross 961 million $23 million in $ 2023 in the United States and Canada and over $ 321.218 in Germany the film was viewed by over 100,000 people in its first week alone from 48 screens and was eventually shown in 500 theaters including 80 paid for by municipal authorities with a total of 6 million Admissions and a gross of $38 million it's 25th anniversary showings gross $551,000 in Wy 29 theaters accolades Spielberg won the Director's Guild of America award for outstanding directing feature film for his work 126 and shared the producers Guild of America Award for best theatrical motion picture with co-producers Branco lustig and Gerald R Mullen Steven Zen won the writer Guild of America Award for best adapted screenplay the film also won the national board of review for best film along with the national Society of film critics for best film Best Director best supporting actor and best cinematography awards from the New York film critic Circle were also won for best film best supporting actor and best cinematographer the Lost Angeles Film critics Association awarded the film for best film best cinematography tied with a piano and best production design the film also won numerous other Awards and nominations worldwide Schindler's List movie review Oscar skler would have been an easier man to understand if he'd been a conventional hero fighting for his beliefs the fact that he was flawed a drinker a gambler a womanizer driven by greed and a lust for high living makes his life an enigma here is a man who saw his chance at the beginning of World War II and moved to Nazi occupied Poland to open a factory and employ Jews at starvation wages his goal was to become a millionaire by the end of the war he had risked his life and spent his fortune to save those Jews and had defrauded the Nazis for months with a Munitions Factory that never produced a single usable shell why did he change what happened to turn him from a victimizer into a humanitarian it is to the great credit of Steven Spielberg that his film skinder list does not even attempt to answer that question any possible answer would be too simple an insult to the mystery of Schindler's life the Holocaust was a vast evil engine set whirling by racism and Madness Schindler outsmarted it in his own little corner of the war but he seems to have had no plan to have improvised out of impulses that remained unclear even to himself in this movie the best he has ever made Spielberg treats the fact of the Holocaust and the Miracle of Schindler's feet without the easy formulas of fiction the movie mov is 184 minutes long and like all great movies it seems too short it begins with skinder Liam niss a tall strong man with an intimidating physical presence he dresses expensively and frequents nightclubs buying caviar and champagne for Nazi officers and their girls and he likes to get his picture taken with the top brass he wears a Nazi party emblem proudly in his button hole he has impeccable Black Market contacts and he's able to find nylons cigarettes Brandy he is the right man to know the authorities are happy to help him open a factory to build enameled cooking utensils that Army kitchens can use he is happy to hire Jews because their wages are lower and skler will get richer that way Schindler's genius is in bribing scheming conning he knows nothing about running a factory and Finds Its hack Stern Ben Kingsley a Jewish accountant to handle that side of things Stern moves through the streets of kraal hiring Jews for skler because the factory is a protected War Industry a job there may guarantee longer life the relationship between skler and Stern is developed by Spielberg with enormous subtlety at the beginning of the war skler wants only to make money and at the end he wants only to save his Jews we know that Stern understands this but there is no moment when skler and Stern bluntly State what is happening perhaps because to say certain things aloud could result in death this subtlety is Spielberg's strength all through the film his screenplay by Steven Zen based on the novel by Thomas kenelly isn't based on contrived melodrama instead Spielberg relies on a series of incidents seen clearly and without artificial manipulation and by witnessing those incidents we understand what little can be known about sky and his scheme we also see the Holocaust in a vivid and terrible way Spielberg gives us a Nazi prison camp commandant named go with Ralph fien who is a study in the stupidity of evil from the verenda of his Villa overlooking the prison yard he shoots Jews for target practice skinder is able to talk him out of this custom with an appeal to his vanity so obvious it is almost an insult goth is one of those weak Hypocrites who upholds an ideal but makes himself an exception to it he preaches the death of the Jews and then chooses a pretty one named Helen hirsh emth Davids to be his maid and falls in love with her he does not find it monstrous that her people are being exterminated and she is spared on his affectionate whim he sees his personal needs as more important than right or wrong life or death studying him we realize that Nazism depended on people able to think like Jeffrey dmer shooting in black and white on many of the actual locations of the events in the story including Schindler's original Factory and even the gates of aitz Spielberg shows skler dealing with the madness of the Nazi system he bribes he weedles he Bluffs he escapes Discovery by the skin of his teeth in the movie's most audacious sequence when a train load of his employees is mistakenly routed to aitz he walks into the death camp himself and brazenly talks the authority out of their victims snatching them from death and putting them back on the train to his Factory what is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story the movie is brilliantly acted written directed and seen individual scenes are masterpieces of art Direction cinematography special effects crowd control yet Spiel bird The Stylist whose films often have gloried in shots we are intended to notice and remember disappeared years into his work n Kingsley and the other actors are devoid of acting flourishes there is a single-mindedness to the Enterprise that is awesome at the end of the film there is a sequence of overwhelming emotional impact involving the actual people who were saved by skler we learn that Schindler's Jews and their descendants today number about 6,000 and that the Jewish population of Poland is 4,000 the obvious lesson would seem to be that that skler did more than a whole nation to spare its Jews that would be too simple the film's message is that one man did something while in the face of the Holocaust others were paralyzed perhaps it took a skler enigmatic and Reckless without a plan heedless of risk a con man to do what he did no rational man with a sensible plan would have gotten as far the French author fabert once wrote that he disliked Uncle Tom's Cabin because the author was constantly preaching against slavery does one have to make observations about slavery he asked depict it that's enough and then he added an author in his book must be like God in the universe present everywhere and visible nowhere that would describe Spielberg the author of this film he depicts the evil of the Holocaust and he tells an incredible story of how it was robbed of some of its intended victims he does so without the tricks of his trade the directorial and dramatic contrivances that would Inspire the usual melodramatic payoffs Spielberg is not visible in this film but his restraint and passion are present in every shot other information about this film after several attempts at making a fully realized mature film Steven Spielberg has finally put it all together in Schindler's List a remarkable work by any standard this searing historical and biographical drum drama about a Nazi industrialist who saved someone n100 Jews from certain death in the concentration camps evinces an artistic rigor and unsentimental intelligence unlike anything the world's most successful filmmaker has demonstrated before marked by a brilliant screenplay exceptionally Supple technique three staggeringly good lead performances and an attitude toward the traumatic subject matter that is both passionately felt and impressively restrained this is the film to win over Spielberg Skeptics how the general public will take to a 3-hour 15minute black and white epic about the Holocaust with no major stars is another matter even with the cards of conventional wisdom stacked against it top reviews off entertainment page coverage possible Awards and the Spielberg name should stir enough interest to turn release into an event elevating it to mustsee status for Discerning audiences worldwide the gamble should pay off financially as well as artistically besides being familiar the Nazi persecution of the Jews is perilous subject matter since it can so easily elicit automatic reactions of moral outrage personal horror religious self-righteousness and dramatic extremes not to mention severe depression taking their cue from Australian writer Thomas Ken's 1982 book of the same name Spielberg and cerist Steven Zen have overcome the problem of familiar it by presenting innumerable details of this Grim history that are utterly fresh and previously unexplored at least in mainstream films and they have triumphed over the most obvious potential pitfalls by keeping as their main focus a man whose mercenary instincts only gradually turned him into an unlikely hero and savior Oscar skler the imposing impeccably groomed Liam niss is masterfully introduced in a Rowdy nightclub sequence that instantly builds interest and Mystique around him as he curries favor with the Nazis who have completed their lightning conquest of Poland in September 1939 with Jews being registered and entering krackow at the rate of 10,000 per week Nazi party member skler arranges to run a major company that will be staffed by unpaid Jews its hack Stern Ben Kingsley becomes his accountant and right-hand man and helps build the concern into a major supplier of pots pans and cookware for troops at the front in near documentary fashion and often using a dizzyingly mobile handheld camera Spielberg who operated his own camera for many of these sequences deafly sketches The Descent of the Jews from Refugee settlers in krackow to their confinement within 16 square blocks by 1941 to the creation of a plaso forced labor camp in 1942 to the brutal liquidation of the ghetto the following year in fascinating detail and using a plethora of vivid characters the film shows how the black market worked how previously well-to-do families were forced into miserable dwellings how the Juden rat Jews nominally empowered by the Germans oversaw and carried out Nazi law how some managed to survive and others didn't in these sequences the seed is planted for one of the pictures superbly developed great themes that the matter of who lived and died was completely utterly existentially arbitrary as one of the characters observes the casualness and randomness of Nazi cruelty was such that at no point could one develop a strategy for survival there was no safe way to behave and even extreme cleverness couldn't save you in the long run all morality Justice and personal worth was erased with the clearing of krackow most of the action shifts to the labor camp which is set in an extraordinary location at the base of a cliff looming above it is the ulent shadow of commandant Ammon goth Ralph Fen from which invited reelers can look down upon the prisoners during glittering parties and in shocking scenes that again are unlike anything previously seen from the balcony of which the commandant randomly shoots helpless inmates as if taking target practice the commandant is a fascinating creation as evil as any Nazi presented on screen over the past 50 years but considerably more complex and human than most he is deeply and he admits disturbingly attracted to the young Jewish woman he keeps as his personal maid tellingly both he and skler drink a great deal but goth admires skler for not unlike him being a drunk that's control he says and control is power skler must use utmost diplomacy in dealing with goth and other top ranking Nazis in order to get his way gently suggesting that their murderous policies are bad for business and that to bestow a pardon confers even greater power on a ruler than constantly meeting out death skinder is permitted to continue operating his krackow Factory as a sub Camp which becomes a virtual Haven for hundreds of Jews in that they are basically assured they won't die there still with the final solution being implemented with ever greater dispatch by 1944 skler must finally buy with his tremendous War profits the leftover Jews to prevent them from being shipped to awit in a harrowing sequence women he has arranged to rescue wind up at the extermination camp by mistake for skler as well as the Jews it remains a question of which will last longer his money or the war after listening to Churchill's announcement of the German surrender skler delivers an extraordinary speech of his own in the presence of both Nazi guards and Jewish workers before fleeing with nothing more than a suitcase throughout the mesmerizing narrative so masterfully orchestrated in Zen's faultlessly intelligent screenplay there are many opportunities for heart tugging obvious plays for sympathy and hate modlin sentiments and cheap indulgences not only because Spielberg resisted every one of them but also because this film is so different and so much tougher than anything else he's done if not forewarned as to its director's identity even a well schooled critic could watch virtually the entire picture and never suspect it was Spielberg on reflection some of the themes relating to greed corruption and inadvertent heroism have been present in his work from early on but nothing before has been anywhere near this deep or resonant images moments and scenes stay in the mind and become even stronger well after viewing the film despite its 3 one forh hour length the film moves forward with great urgency and is not a minute too too long for the story it is telling and the amount of information it imparts it is naturally full of violence and death but Spielberg makes this both memorable and somehow bearable by staging it all with abrupt shocking suddenness which adds to the feeling of arbitrariness this is not strictly speaking a concentration camp movie but a densely woven personal drama with the most striking of historical backdrops which is what will get mainstream audiences through it the only debatable choice is the brief color epilogue which depicts many of the surviving skler Jews filing by his grave in Israel accompanied for the most part by the much younger actors who have portrayed them in the film this will have many viewers crying their eyes out but it also smacks on a certain level of direct emotional manipulation the only such instance in the work another device that uses color is also questionable that of a little girl whom skler notices and whose red coat stands out against the prevailing black and white what this is supposed to signify is anyone's guess although it's so minor that it doesn't matter from top to bottom the performances from the enormous cast are impeccable whereas most major Stars would have wanted to tip the audience off early on that skler was actually a sensitive caring guy Underneath It All Nissan leaves no doubt through most of the film that his character was driven foremost by profit in a superlative performance Nissan makes skler a fascinating but highly ambiguous figure effectively persuasive and manipulative in one-on-one scenes where he's determined to get what he wants and finally rising to dramatic Heights with his courageous and stirring farewell speech Kingsley must act within much more rigid constraints as his trusted accountant Stern a man who feels he must never make a misstep ro is reminiscent of Alec Guinness deluded Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Quai in his compulsion to do a perfect job for skinder he often seems to forget that he's working for the enemy the extraordinary fian creates an indelible character in Goth with Ponch hanging out and eyes filled with disgust both for his victims and himself he's like a minor league Roman Emperor gone sour with excess a man in whom too much power and debauchery have crushed anything that might want have been good the dozens of small rolls many of which figure in the action only briefly have been superbly filled by faces that invariably register immediately and with terrific Effectiveness shot mostly on location in Poland the picture captures in exceptional detail the nightmare world of 50 years ago Alan starsky's production design Blends imperceptibly with natural locations this is a film that could have been made only in black and white and yet it is solely because of Spielberg's commercial stature that it was able to be made that way lensing by Janice Kaminsky a young Polish American cinematographer whose previous credits include the adventures of Huck Finn Diane Katon made for cable Wildflower and some Roger Corman efforts is outstanding lighting is mostly very simple camera moves are agile and perceptive and pallet features Many Shades of Gray rather than high contrast black and white Michael Khan's editing moves with Dynamic swiftness when desired and holds on scenes when required making the running time seem shorter John Williams score is atypical especially in the context of his work for Spielberg as it's low-key Soulful and flecked with ethnic flavors dedicated to the late Time Warner chairman Steve Ross Skyler's list has a deep emotional impact that is extraordinarily well served and balanced by its intelligence historical perspective and film making expertise more details there have been numerous documentaries and dramatic Productions focusing on the Holocaust including a television miniseries which many consider to be the definitive work as a result in deciding to film Skyler's list director Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park set an imposing task for himself his vision needed to differ from that of the filmmakers who preceded him yet the finished product had to remain faithful to the unforgettable images which represent the legacy of 6 million massacred Jews those who see this motion picture will witness Spielberg's success the film opens in September of 1939 in krackow Poland with the Jewish Community under increasing pressure from the Nazis into this tumult comes Oscar skinder Liam nisson a Nazi businessman interested in obtaining Jewish backing for a factory he wishes to build he makes contact with its Haack Stern Ben Kingsley an accountant to arrange financial matters for a while there is no interest and nothing happens March 1941 the krackow Jewish Community has been forced to live in the ghetto where money no longer has any meaning several Elders agree to invest in skinder Factory and the de Deutch email wear fabric is born a place where large quantities of pots are manufactured to do the work SK landler hires Jews because they're cheaper than poles and the German Army becomes his biggest customer March 1943 Germany's intentions towards the Jews are no longer a secret the ghetto is liquidated with the survivors being hurted into the PLO forced labor camp many are executed and still others are shipped Away by train never to return during this time skler has managed to ingratiate himself with the local commander and goth Ralph Fen a Nazi who kills Jews for sport using his relationship with goth skinder begins to secretly campaigned to help the Jews saving men women and children from certain death Spielberg elected to film this Motion Picture in black and white and it's impossible to argue with his choice Director of Photography Janus Kaminsky has made effective use of Shadow and light meticulously limiting the application of hue the opening scene is in color as is the closing sequence which features the surviving skinder Jews each accompanied by the actor who played their character placing a stone on their savior's grave there are also two instances when color is allowed to bleed into the blacks whites and Grays one little girl's jacket appears red so that she stands out from the masses and a pair of candles burn with orange Flames when color is used it makes a point and an impression Schindler's List gives us three major stories and a host of minor ones first and foremost it tells the tale of the Holocaust presenting new images of old Horrors these are as ghastly and realistic as anything previously filmed and Spielberg emphasizes the brutality of the situation by not pulling punches when it comes to gore the blood in Kai rather than Crimson in Stark black and white fountains when men and women are shot in the head or through the neck the second story is that of Oscar skler the Nazi businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from Death skler starts out as a self-centered manufacturer concerned only about making money he hires Jews because they're cheap not because he likes them but his perspective changes and he risks losing everything to save as many lives as he can his eventual lament that he couldn't save more is heartbreaking the third story belongs to amm and Goth the Nazi commander of krackow a man who Teeters on the brink of Madness despite his intense hatred for Jews he is inexplicably attracted to his Jewish housekeeper Helen hirsh emth David disgusted by his feelings he lashes out at her with a display of violence that is almost scores like in its blunt presentation as written goth could easily have become a conscienceless monster but Spielberg Works carefully to show unexpected depth and complexity to his character often the experiences of the minor characters provide the most lasting images Helen's story is memorable as is the plight of young Dana Dresner and her mother as they strive to avoid death while staying together there's a Jewish couple that marries in the plaso camp even though their chances of survival are dim and a rabbi who survives a close encounter with a Nazi gun of course the Holocaust images are Grim but seen of mass Graves and exuded bodies are not unique to Schindler's List while it's impossible to deny their power potentially more dubing are the instances of callus individual murder Spielberg doesn't spare his audience when it comes to sudden violence or the dehumanizing factors involved in such events after all Jews were viewed as Vermin Schindler's List is replete with moments like this the acting is uniformly excellent Liam Nan skler is shown in all his complexity and his transformation is played with studied control this is no sudden reversal of philosophy but a matter of conscience that slowly Dawn on the man with a keen sense of Schindler's character Nissan depicts the metamorphosis from self-centered businessmen to driven Messiah Ben Kingsley whose Gandhi transfixed audiences years ago has the movie's most understated role won that he acts with simple sincerity equally as impressive is emth Davids who snares the viewers attention during her limited screen time as Helen Hirsch the object of Ammon Go's Twisted affection speaking of goth Ralph Fen stuns with his intricate Savage portrayal of the Nazi Commander a man fascinated by power and murder fien goth has the rare ability to both Mesmerize and repulse and this is a performance that will long be remembered despite the grizzly subject matter this movie is essentially about uncovering a kernel of Hope and dignity in the midst of a monstrous tragedy the story of Oscar skinder sacrifices for the Jews sets this apart from other Holocaust dramas uncompromising in its portrayal of good evil and all the shades in between Schindler's List offers a clear view of human nature laid bare hatred greed lust Envy anger and most important of all empathy and love because this film touches us so deeply the catharsis has a power that few if any other moments in film history can match and that's what establishes this as a Transcendent Motion Picture experience this film directed by Steven Spielberg screenplay by Steven alen produced by Steven Spielberg Gerald R Mullen Branco lustic starring Liam niss Ben Kingsley Ralph Yen Caroline Goodall Jonathan seal emth Davids cinematography Janos Kaminsky edited by Michael Khan music by John Williams production companies Universal Pictures amlin Entertainment distributed by Universal Pictures release dates November 30th 1993 in Washington D.C December 15th 1993 in United States running time 195 minutes country United States language English budget $22 million box office $ 322.212 about it how do you 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