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Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. The film is based on the 1982 novel "Schindler's Ark" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
The film follows Oskar Schindler, 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.
The film stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Goeth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Isaac Stern.
Ideas for a film about Schindler Godin (Schindler's Jews) were proposed as early as 1963.
Poldek Pfefferberg, a member of the Schindler tribe, made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's story.
Spielberg became interested when executive Sidney Sheinberg sent him a review of the book Schindler's Ark
. Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure if he was ready to make a Holocaust film, tried to pass the project on to several directors beforehand. Decide to direct it.
Principal photography took place in Krakow, Poland, over 72 days in 1993.
Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the film like a documentary.
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski wanted to create a sense of timelessness.
John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main theme.
Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993 in Washington, D.C., and was released on December 15, 1993 in the United States. Often listed among the greatest films ever made
, the film has been universally acclaimed for its tone (particularly Neeson, Fiennes, and Kingsley), atmosphere, score, cinematography, and Spielberg's acting direction. . ; It was also a box office success, grossing $322.2 million worldwide on a budget of $22 million.
It was nominated for twelve awards at the 66th Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture,
Best Director (for Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. The film won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindler's List eighth on its list of the 100 greatest American films of all time.
The film was designated as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress in 2004 and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
In Krakow during World War II, the Nazis forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Krakow ghetto.
Oskar Schindler, a member of the German Nazi Party from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune.
He bribed Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials, and took over a factory to produce enamelware. Schindler hires Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official with connections between black market dealers and the Jewish business community;
He takes over management and helps Schindler arrange financing. Stern ensured that as many Jewish workers as possible were deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being transported by the SS to concentration camps or killed. Meanwhile,
Schindler maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys his new wealth and status as an industrialist.
SS-Untersturmführer (2nd Lieutenant) Amon Goeth arrives in Krakow to supervise the construction of Plaszow concentration camp.
When the camp was ready, he ordered the liquidation of the ghetto: two thousand Jews were transported to Plaszow, and another two thousand were killed in the streets by the SS. Schindler witnessed the massacre and was deeply affected.
He particularly noticed a young girl in a red coat hiding from the Nazis and later saw her body on a cart filled with corpses.
Schindler is careful to maintain his friendship with Goth and continues to enjoy the support of the SS, often through bribery.
Goth brutalizes his Jewish maid, Helen Hirsch, and randomly shoots people from the balcony of his villa. Prisoners are in constant fear for their lives. As time goes on, Schindler's focus shifts from making money to trying to save as many lives as possible. To better protect his workers, Schindler bribes Goth to allow him to build a subcamp at his factory.
When the Germans began to lose the war, Goth was ordered to ship the remaining Jews in Płaszów to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Schindler asks Goeth for permission to transfer his workers to a munitions factory he plans to build in Brünnlitz near his hometown of Zweitau.
Goth reluctantly agrees but takes a large bribe. Schindler and Stern prepare a list of people to be taken to Brünnlitz instead of Auschwitz. The list eventually includes 1,100 names.
While Jewish workers were being transported by train to Brünnlitz, women and girls were mistakenly redirected to Auschwitz-Birkenau;
Schindler bribes Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz, to release them. At the new factory, Schindler prohibited SS guards from entering the production area without permission and encouraged Jews to observe the Sabbath. Over the next seven months,
he spent his fortune bribing Nazi officials and purchasing shell casings from other companies. Because of Schindler's machines, the factory does not produce any usable weapons. He ran out of money in 1945, just as Germany surrendered.
As a member of the Nazi Party and a war profiteer, Schindler must flee the advancing Red Army to avoid capture.
The factory's SS guards were ordered to kill the Jewish workforce, but Schindler convinced them not to do so.
To bid farewell to his workers, he prepares to head west, hoping to surrender to the Americans. The workers gave him a signed statement attesting to his role in saving Jewish lives and presented him with a ring inscribed with a Talmudic quotation:
“He who saves one life has saved the whole world.” Schindler breaks down in tears, feeling like he should have done more, and is comforted by the workers before he and his wife leave in their car.
When Schindelryuden wakes the next morning, a mounted Soviet officer announces that they have been liberated but warns them not to head east because "they hate you there." Then the Jews march to the countryside.
The epilogue reveals that Goth was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed by hanging,
while Schindler's marriage and business failed after the war.
In the present, many of Schindler's surviving characters and the actors who portray them visit Schindler's grave and place stones on the marker (a traditional Jewish mark of respect for the dead), after which Liam Neeson places two roses.
Poldek Pfefferberg, a member of the Schindlergoden family, has made it his life's mission to tell the story of his savior. Pfefferberg attempted to produce a biography of Oskar Schindler with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1963, with Howard Koch writing, but the deal fell through.
In 1982, Thomas Keneally published his historical novel Schindler's Ark, which he wrote after a chance meeting with Pfefferberg in Los Angeles in 1980.[11] MCA President Sid Sheinberg sent director Steven Spielberg a New York Times review of the book. Spielberg, amazed by Schindler's story,
jokingly asked if it was true. “I was drawn to her because of the contradictory nature of the character,” he said. “What drives a man like this to suddenly take everything he's earned and put it all into the service of saving these lives?” Spielberg expressed enough interest for Universal Pictures to purchase the rights to the novel.
At their first meeting in the spring of 1983, he told Pfefferberg that he would start filming in ten years. In the end credits of the film, Pfefferberg is credited as a consultant under the name Leopold Page.
The liquidation of the Krakow ghetto in March 1943 was the subject of a 15-minute segment of the film.
Spielberg was unsure whether he was mature enough to make a film about the Holocaust, and the project remained "on his conscience
." Spielberg tried to pass the project on to director Roman Polanski, but he rejected Spielberg's offer.
Polanski's mother was murdered in Auschwitz, and he had lived and survived the Krakow ghetto. Polanski eventually directed his own Holocaust drama The Pianist (2002). Spielberg also showed the film to Sidney Pollack and Martin Scorsese, who had been attached to direct Schindler's List in 1988.
However, Spielberg was unsure about letting Scorsese direct the film, as "I was given a chance to do something for my children and my children's children
." Family about the Holocaust."[15] Spielberg offered him the opportunity to direct the 1991 remake of Cape Fear instead.[16] Scorsese later admitted in an interview that although he thought his version of the film might have been good, he had no regrets Although he passed it on to Spielberg, saying,
"It couldn't have been as successful as it was." Billy Wilder expressed interest in directing the film as a memorial to his family, most of whom were killed in the Holocaust. Brian De Palma also turned down an offer to direct.[19]
Spielberg finally decided to take on the project when he noticed that Holocaust deniers were receiving serious attention from the media.
With the rise of neo-Nazism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he worried that people were too receptive to intolerance, as they had been in the 1930s. Sid Sheinberg greenlighted the film on the condition that Spielberg make Jurassic Park first. Spielberg later said, "He knew that once I directed Schindler,
I wouldn't be able to do Jurassic Park." The picture was allocated a small budget of $22 million, as Holocaust films are not usually profitable.
Spielberg renounced the film's salary, calling it "blood money",[2] and believing it would fail.[2]
In 1983, Keneally was hired to edit his book, and he turned in a 220-page script. His adaptation focused on Schindler's many relationships, and Keneally admitted that he did not compress the story enough. Spielberg hired Kurt Luedtke, who had adapted the screenplay for Out of Africa, to write the next draft
. Luedtke gave up after nearly four years, because he found Schindler's change of heart unbelievable. During his tenure as director, Scorsese hired Steven Zaillian to write the screenplay. When the project was handed to him, Spielberg found Zaillian's 115-page draft too short, and asked him to extend it to 195 pages.
Spielberg wanted to focus more on the Jews in the story, and wanted Schindler's transition to be gradual and mysterious rather than a sudden relief or sudden appearance. He also extended the ghetto liquidation sequence, because he "felt strongly that the sequence should be almost unwatchable."
Neeson auditioned for the role of Schindler early in the film's development. It was cast in December 1992 after Spielberg saw him perform in Anna Christie on Broadway. Warren Beatty was involved in reading the script, but Spielberg was concerned that he could not hide his accent and that he would bring "movie star baggage
". Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson expressed interest in portraying Schindler, but Spielberg preferred to cast the relatively unknown Neeson so that the quality of the actor would not overshadow the character. Neeson felt that Schindler enjoyed outmaneuvering the Nazis, who viewed him as somewhat naive.
“They don't take him completely seriously, and he used that to full effect.” To help him prepare for the role, Spielberg showed clips from Neeson's film to Time Warner CEO Steve Ross, who had a charisma that Spielberg compared to Schindler.[25] He also found a tape of Schindler speaking, which Neeson studied to learn the correct intonations and pitch.
Fiennes was cast in the role of Amon Goeth after Spielberg saw his performances in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Spielberg said of Fiennes' audition: "I saw sexual evil. It's all about subtlety: there were moments of kindness that moved through his eyes and then immediately cooled." Fiennes gained 28 pounds (13 kg) to play the role. He watched historical newsreels and talked to Holocaust survivors who knew Guth.
In his portrayal, Fiennes said: "I get close to his pain. Inside him is a broken, miserable human being. I feel so broken for him, so sorry for him. He's like some dirty, broken doll that was given to me and that I've come to feel like."
Strangely related to."[27] Doctors Samuel J. Lystedt and Paul Lenkowski of the Free University of Brussels describe Goth's character in the film as a classic psychopath. Fiennes so closely resembled Goth in his costume that when Milla Pfefferberg met him, she shuddered the fear.
The character of Isaac Stern (played by Ben Kingsley) is a composite of accountant Stern, factory manager Abraham Banker,
and Guth's personal secretary, Metek Pember. The character represents Schindler's alter ego and conscience.[30] Dustin Hoffman was offered the role but turned it down.
Overall, there are 126 speaking parts in the film. Thousands of extras were employed during filming. Spielberg cast Israeli and Polish actors chosen specifically for their Eastern European appearance.
Many of the German actors were reluctant to wear SS uniforms, but some later thanked Spielberg for the cathartic experience of performing in the film. Midway through filming, Spielberg envisioned the epilogue, in which 128 survivors pay their respects at Schindler's grave in Jerusalem.
The producers rushed to find the Schindlerjuden and fly them in to film the scene.
