Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 biographical film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian, a dramatized account of the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his munitions factory.

The film, based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, starred Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern. The film was both a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Score. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film #8 on its list of the 100 best American films of all time.

Main Casts
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Göth
Caroline Goodall - Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagall - Poldek Pfefferberg
Embeth Davidtz - Helen Hirsch
Malgoscha Gebel - Wiktoria Klonowska
Shmuel Levy - Wilek Chilowicz
Mark Ivanir - Marcel Goldberg
Béatrice Macola - Ingrid
Andrzej Seweryn - Julian Scherner
Friedrich von Thun - Rolf Czurda
Krzysztof Luft - Herman Toffel
Harry Nehring - Leo John
Norbert Weisser - Albert Hujar
Adi Nitzan - Mila Pfefferberg
Michael Schneider - Juda Dresner
Miri Fabian - Chaja Dresner
Anna Mucha - Danka Dresner
Albert Misak - Mordecai Wulkan
Hans-Michael Rehberg - Rudolf Hoess
Daniel Del Ponte - Dr. Josef Mengele

Directed by Steven Spilberg

DVD Review
By Erik North (San Gabriel, CA USA)
This review is from: Schindler's List (2pc) (VHS Tape)

Any way you stack it, Steven Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece SCHINDLER'S LIST is one of the most important and enlightening films ever made. It is a heartfelt, deeply personal film about one of the ghastliest events in human history--the Holocaust--and how one man, a Nazi profiteer by the name of Oskar Schindler, while motivated by money, managed to save some 1200 Jews from the gas chambers of Auschwitz during World War II.

Spielberg wisely does not gloss over the fact that Schindler was every bit the womanizer as he was an astute, cagey businessman who made deals with the Nazis to set up an enamelware factory in the Cracow ghetto and employ the Jewish populace there. But his very trusted secretary Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) manages to awaken a latent spark of humanity in the once cold-blooded Schindler. By the time the war is over and the facts are known about the Nazi atrocities, Schindler is financially broke but spiritually enriched. "He who saves one life saves the world entire."

Filmed in somber, documentary-like black-and-white by Janusz Kaminski, SCHINDLER'S LIST features superb performances by Neeson and Kingsley, as well as British actor Ralph Fiennes as the extraordinarily chilling Nazi commandant Amon Goeth, whose basic senses of Nazi business Schindler must appeal to while keeping the fact that he is sheltering the Jews a secret. Spielberg spares nothing in showing us the horrors of the Nazis barbarism; and although it is, not surprisingly, a very lengthy film (three hours and ten minutes), a lot happens for us to absorb, so it never becomes ponderous or heavy-handed.

Winner of seven Oscars, including a Best Director nod to Spielberg that was long overdue, SCHINDLER'S LIST shows us the worst in humanity, but also the best as well. Even in so much pain and death, there is hope. And that is why this film is such a masterpiece.

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