Schindler's List

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Schindler's List
Directed by	Steven Spielberg
Produced by	Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Branko Lustig Gerald R. Molen Lew Rywin Irving Glovin Robert Raymond
Written by	Screenplay by Steven Zaillian Based on Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
Starring	Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Caroline Goodall Jonathan Sagalle Embeth Davidtz
Music by	John Williams
Cinematography	Janusz Kaminski
Editing by	Michael Kahn
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	December 15, 1993
Running time	195 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$25,000,000
Gross revenue	Domestic $96,065,768 Foreign $225,200,000 Worldwide $321,265,768
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Ratings
United States:	R

Schindler's List is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy winning 1993 movie based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. The movie, adapted by Steven Zaillian and directed by Steven Spielberg, relates the tale of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Catholic businessman who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The title refers to a list of the names of 1,100 Jews whom Schindler hired to work in his factory and kept from being sent to the Nazi concentration camp.

Schindler's List is consistently ranked amongst the finest movies of all time. It is currently ranked as 9th best film by the American Film Institute [1], and, as of March 18, 2007, rated number eight on the top 250 films on the Internet Movie Database with an 8.8/10 rating [2].

Taglines: "He who saves one life, saves the world entire." "The List Is Life."

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Response 5 Controversy 6 Differences from the book 7 Awards 8 1997 TV controversy 9 MPAA 10 See also 11 External links 11.1 Related sites

[edit] Plot

The movie begins in color, with the lighting of two candles in a dark room. A Hasidic family prays with the father singing the benediction. Following the prayer, the candles burn down completely, with smoke fading, and the picture transforms into black and white, and turning the smoke from the candles into a locomotive's smokestack.

It is September, 1939. The Polish Army has been defeated by the Germans in just over two weeks, starting World War II in Europe. Jews living in occupied Poland are ordered to relocate to population centers. The film's action starts with crowds of Jews from all over the country, Hasidic, assimilated, rich, and poor, being detained in Kraków, and submitting their names to German officials waiting on the station platforms with typewriters and lists.

As this is happening, Oskar Schindler arrives in Kraków as an unsuccessful businessman from Czechoslovakia, and has come with the hope of using the now abundant slave labor force of Jews and Poles to manufacture goods for the German Army. Schindler makes a very good impression with the occupying authorities early on, being a member of the Nazi Party and lavishing gifts and bribes upon the army and SS officials now running southern Poland. He becomes a friend to the SS and Police Leader of Kraków, Julian Scherner, and quickly calls in favors as he begins to establish himself as a businessman in the region. His wife, Emilie, comes to visit him in his new home (which was the home of a Jewish family that was forced to abandon it to live in the ghetto), and she is shocked when another woman answers the door. She even double looks at the address, making sure she has the right house; this scene tells us that Schindler is a womanizer. After their night out, Emilie asks Schindler if he wants her to stay, he says it's up to her. She offers to stay, provided there is to be no further philandering - the next scene is Schindler waving goodbye to his wife at the train station; he cannot promise Emilie that she will be the only one.

With military sponsors in his back pocket, he sets out to acquire a factory for the production of enamelware, mainly for cookery. He is told he must manufacture goods such as pots, pans, and cooking materials for the war effort. Because he has no money to buy the factory and its machinery, and his administrative skills are dubious at best, he gains a contact in Itzhak Stern, a functionary in the local Judenrat (Jewish Council) who in turn has contacts with the now underground Jewish business community. Schindler makes the businessmen a deal they cannot refuse, especially since they are now forced to live in the Ghetto, and their money is of little use to them: they will loan him the money for the factory, and he will give them a small share of the pots and pans produced, for trade on the black market outside the Kraków ghetto. When asked how he can be trusted, he informs them that they must take him at his word, and that no court would ever uphold a contract from a Jew.

Schindler gets his money and opens the factory. He pleases the Nazis and enjoys his new-found wealth, while Stern handles all administration and uses his position to help his fellow Jews by suggesting to Schindler to hire Jews instead of Poles, because their labor is for free, but he would have to pay wages for the Poles instead. Workers in Schindler's factory are allowed outside the ghetto, and are certified as "essential workers", guaranteeing that they will not be rounded up at night by the Gestapo. This last point is key, and Stern makes false documents listing people as experience labor workers before the war, instead of their real occupations; like teachers, lawyers, etc. because laborers are needed to work in factories, as oppose to accountants and such. Stern uses his considerable skills to make sure as many people as possible are deemed "essential" by the Nazi bureaucracy — even children, women, the elderly, and the infirmed: people who would otherwise be deported immediately. Schindler becomes aware of what is going on, but takes no action to stop it. There is a scene, when an elderly man with a missing arm wants to come up to see the director of the company (Schindler) to thank him for hiring him. Stern tells Schindler that he's been pressing for the meeting, and Schindler gives in. When the elderly man comes in, Schindler sees he is old and missing an arm; however, although he's bothered by this, he still acts polite to the old man. After that uncomfortable encounter, when he's getting into his car, he tells Stern to never do that to him again, and that what is the old man's use, he has a missing arm; but despite his obvious annoyance, he keeps the old man on his list of workers. It doesn't matter though, because later on, when the workers are walking to the factory, the Gestapos make the workers start digging snow on the street. Then they see the old man, and they laugh at him because of his missing limb. Knowing that he is of no use for labor during the war, they kill him. Schindler is bothered by this when he finds out, as he expresses to the SS officer, saying that the old man was very useful.

Soon after, an SS officer named Amon Göth arrives in Kraków to initiate construction of a labor camp, Płaszów, and to assume control of the ghetto. Göth was memorably portrayed by Ralph Fiennes (in his first widely seen role) as a sociopath who compensates for his paunchy, unfit body, betraying a history of drink, by clinging tight to flattering Nazi notions of superior Aryan stock. Göth mixes his vanity with an attitude towards Jews that does not rise to hatred, as he perceives Jews not as human beings nor even as livestock, but closest to vermin, who can be killed casually for sport. In Göth's only extended monologue, he eagerly appeals to Schindler that the Jewish population is a "virus." In the first of two scenes establishing Göth's character, he is surveying the construction of a new building at a concentration camp, with a group of captive Jews nearby. A female Jewish engineer is excitedly yelling at one of the guards about something, urging that the concrete foundation for the barrack has been improperly laid, and must be redone. She gives her credentials by stating the university that she graduated from. Göth silently listens to her advice, mocking her by calling her an educated Jew, another Karl Marx. He then has her shot in the head. In the next breath, Göth orders that everything she requested be done.

In due course, Göth razes the Kraków ghetto, sending in hundreds of troops to clear the cramped rooms and shooting anyone who cannot or will not leave. Schindler watches the massacre from the hills overlooking the area, and is profoundly affected. Especially when he spots a little girl, in a red coat, the only thing that is in color is the coat, while the movie continues on in black and white. However, he now faces the more immediate problem of how to run his factory without his workers. He meets Göth during a dinner with other important SS officers, and Schindler is well received by everyone as usual because of his charm. He is careful to befriend Göth, and he does so. Schindler keeps his disturbances private, and patiently agree with Göth and other Nazis rambling statements about the Jews. Having earned Göth's trust, Schindler convinces Göth to let him keep his workers for considerable bribes and payoffs. Schindler is now, though reluctantly, sheltering people who have very few skills in his factory. He is in fact, losing money instead of making money, and even gives Stern his gold watch as a bribe for one of the officers.

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In the labor camp, Spielberg shows the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners, as they are made to strip naked and to run around the camp's central square while being "physically exam" by physicans as useful laborers or not. Young and old are shown running for display, with the clear purpose being to separate those capable of labor from those who are too old, too young, or too frail, and will be gassed and disposed of. Despite this indication that the Jewish prisoners are to be treated similarly to livestock, the film portrays the inability of many Jews to truly believe that the Nazis will kill them, assuming instead that while the Nazi party may raid their wealth, genocide served no purpose. The conflict is evident when a prisoner suggests that the "unessential" Jews have been led off to be killed, but some of her listeners rejects the idea claiming that it is ridiculous and illogical. One old woman exclaims, "We are their work force! Why would they want to kill their own work force?" As is supported by numerous accounts, many Jews continued to see their internment as yet another example of animosity towards the Jewish population, but one that would eventually end as the war ended.

To Amon Göth's considerable consternation, and to Schindler's horror, an order arrives from Berlin commanding Göth to exhume and destroy all bodies of those killed in the ghetto razing, dismantle Płaszów, and to ship the whole population to Auschwitz. He explains to Schindler that he is being asked to do this immediately, and it is the administrative burden that horrifies him, not the thought of having to destroy "every rag": saying to Schindler that, "the party is over". Schindler prevails upon Göth to let him keep his workers, so that he can move them to a factory in his old home of Zwittau-Brinnlitz, in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), away from the Holocaust, now fully underway in Poland. Göth acquiesces, for a payoff of millions of Reichsmark. So that his workers can be kept off the trains to the killing centers, Schindler, with Stern, assembles a list of them.

"Schindler's List" comprises these "skilled" inmates, and for many of those in Płaszów camp, being on it means the difference between life and death. All the people on Schindler's list arrive safely at the new site — except the trains carrying the women is accidentally redirected to Auschwitz. Schindler rushes immediately to Auschwitz and stops their gassing. He bribes the camp commander, Rudolf Hoess, with a cache of diamonds. Hoess reluctantly agrees and the women are spared. As the women board the train to the site of the factory, several SS officers attempt to hold some children back and prevent them from leaving. However, Schindler, who is there to personally oversee the boarding, steps in and demands the officers release the children, giving as his reason that their small hands and fingers can clean the insides of small shell casings. Once the Schindler women arrive in Zwittau-Brinnlitz, Schindler institutes firm controls on the Nazi guards assigned to the factory, permits the Jews to observe the Sabbath, and spends the rest of his fortune bribing Nazi officials. In his home town, he surprises his wife while she's in church during mass, and tells her that she is the only one (a reference to her visit in the beginning of the movie). She goes with him to the factory to help out with the inmates. He runs out of money just as the German army surrenders, ending the war in Europe.

As a German, a Nazi, and a self-described "profiteer of slave labor", Schindler must flee the oncoming Soviet Red Army. After dismissing the Nazi guards to return to their families, he packs a car in the night, and bids farewell to his workers. They give him a letter explaining his actions (and the fact that he is not a criminal), together with a ring engraved with the Talmudic quotation, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Seeing his luxurious car, Schindler is consumed with guilt, realizing he could have bribed Göth for ten more Jews with it. He pulls the Nazi Party pin from his lapel, and cries, "This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this." The Jews that he saved surround him, reaching out to comfort him with assuring words, "You have saved so many." He then leaves with his wife and what belongings he can carry, dressed in prisoner uniforms to appear like refugees.

The Schindler Jews, having slept outside the factory gates through the night, are awakened by sunlight the next morning. A Soviet dragoon arrives and announces to the Jews that they have been liberated. Stern asks the solider where they should go, the solider tells them not to go east because they are hated there, and if he was them, not to go west either because they aren't welcome there also. The Jews walk to a nearby town to look for food. As they walk abreast, the frame changes to another of the Schindler Jews in the present day at the grave of Oskar Schindler in Israel.

The film ends by showing a procession of now-aged Jews who worked in Schindler's factory, who reverently set a stone on his grave. The actors portraying the major characters walk hand-in-hand with the actual persons they portrayed, placing stones on Schindler's grave as they pass. The camera pans to the left, revealing a long line of people consisting of not only those portrayed in the film but also their families. Ben Kingsley walks to the grave holding the hand of Itzhak Stern's widow.

The movie then imparts that the survivors and descendents of the approximately 1,100 Jews sheltered by Schindler now number over 6,000. It then mentions that the Jewish population of Poland, once numbering in the millions, was at the time of the film's 1993 release approximately 4,000.

In a final scene, a man places a rose on the grave, and stands contemplatively over it. Though many believe it to be director Steven Spielberg^{[citation needed]}, it is actually Liam Neeson, who portrayed Oskar Schindler in the film and is the only actor not present in the aforementioned line of people.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Liam Neeson	Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley	Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes	Amon Göth
Caroline Goodall	Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagalle	Poldek Pfefferberg
Pawel Delag	Dolek Horowitz
Embeth Davidtz	Helen Hirsch
Malgoscha Gebel	Victoria Klonowska
Andrzej Seweryn	Julian Scherner
Norbert Weisser	Albert Hujar
Daniel Del Ponter	Josef Mengele
Harry Nehring	Leo John

[edit] Production

Roman Polanski was asked to direct the film. However, he passed on it, having survived the Kraków Ghetto himself. He felt it would be too personal, and would bring up too many hard memories that he was not prepared to deal with at the time. In 2002, he did direct a Holocaust-themed movie, The Pianist, which earned him an Oscar for Best Director. Martin Scorsese was another prospective director, but feeling it should be made by a Jewish director, he traded it to Spielberg in exchange for the rights to remake Cape Fear, which Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment produced. When Steven Spielberg finally signed on he refused payment for making this movie, saying that it would be like "taking blood money".

Steven Spielberg later spoke of the making of the movie as affecting him deeply.^{[citation needed]} It is shot almost entirely in black and white (with a color prologue and epilogue, a red coat in two scenes, and color candle flames in another). It stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth. The publicity for the film used the tagline "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire". Critically acclaimed, the film won praise for depicting — often in exceptional, graphic detail — the horrifying brutality of the Holocaust.

Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, it won seven, including the coveted Best Picture and the Best Director award for Spielberg (his first, although he had previously received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award). Composer and conductor John Williams also won the Academy Award for Original Music Score, which features violin solos by Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman. Ralph Fiennes' performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. While he didn't get the Oscar, he did win the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award, which is the British equivalent. Liam Neeson was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, but did not win.

[edit] Response

Viewers consistently vote Schindler's List among the top ten movies on the Internet Movie Database Top 250, and the American Film Institute voted it #9 on their AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies series. In addition, the American Film Institute voted Liam Neeson's Schindler as the 13th greatest movie hero of all time, while Ralph Fiennes' Göth was voted the 15th greatest villain in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains series. In 2006 it was selected as the 3rd most inspiring movie of all time by AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers. In 2004, the Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Initial critical reception was overwhelmingly positive, as Schindler's List was widely lauded as not just a rare achievement of movie-making but a significant cultural event.^{[citation needed]} In addition to its compelling dramatic themes, Schindler's List was viewed by high-school classes throughout the country to impress the horrors of the Holocaust and serve as fodder for discussion of anti-Semitic attitudes ranging from mild suspicion to overt violence.^{[citation needed]} In the United States, the viewing of the movie was often presented as a form of moral obligation among both Gentiles and Jews.^{[citation needed]} The movie's status among American Jews was parodied in an episode of the television program Seinfeld, in which Jerry and his girlfriend, reunited after an absence, cannot keep their hands off each other in a theater screening of Schindler's List. After his parents are informed by a treacherous witness (Newman played by Wayne Knight), Jerry's mother incredulously and repeatedly asks: "You were making out during Schindler's LIST?!?"

Schindler's List won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, but did not win.

In addition, Schindler's List also featured on a number of other "best of" lists, including the Time magazine's Top Hundred as selected by critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, Time Out magazine's 100 Greatest Films Centenary Poll conducted in 1995, Roger Ebert's "Great Movies"' series, and Leonard Maltin's "100 Must See Movies of the Century".

Following the success of the film, Spielberg founded and continues to finance the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a non-profit organization with the goal of providing an archive for the filmed testimony of as many survivors of the Holocaust as possible, so that their stories will not be lost.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Controversy

The scene in which a group of women confuse a gas chamber with an actual shower is taken directly, shot by shot, from Juraj Herz's Zastihla mě noc (1986). Herz wanted to sue, but was unable to come up with the money to fund the effort. [5]

[edit] Differences from the book

There are several notable differences between the book and film:

• The movie omits any reference to Oskar Schindler collecting guns for the Jews to defend themselves from the SS guards. There were two mentions of it in the book, one of them half a page long. It was described as an "independent arsenal" containing carbines and automatic weapons, some pistols, and hand grenades.
• The movie places the Jews at the mercy of the guards at the end of the war, with Schindler calling on the humanity of the SS, with the Jews under the guns of the guards, who then turn away. In the book, Schindler had ensured the SS commander was sent away, as he was the only one of the WW detail who believed in the "Final Solution", and when the war was lost, Herr Schindler simply dismissed the guards, and they left.
• The insane rages and cruelty of Amon Göth were not depicted in the movie to the extent they are in the book. Sometimes Göth would set his two dogs, Ralf and Rolf, upon prisoners, who would be torn apart. He would then shoot the victim in the head when he/she stopped moving.
• The book describes Schindler's "escape" from a previously Nazi-occupied area soon after the war ends, accompanied by eight Jewish Schindler camp inmates who tag along for his protection. This entire journey is described along with an incident where they encounter a group of American soldiers, among them a rabbi who cries and hugs Schindler after reading the "letter of reference" given to him by those he saved. The book also traces the remainder of his life in Germany, beset by monetary difficulties and poor health. On several occasions he receives financial help from former "Schindler Jews". These sections have been avoided in the movie.
• The scene in the movie where Schindler breaks off, wishing he could have saved more Jews by trading his remaining wealth, after the camp inmates present him with a memento does not appear in the book.
• The movie shows Stern accidentally placed on the train, whereas in the book it is actually Bankier and other workers from the DEF.
• According to a book review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 25, 2005, Mietek Pemper, an inmate who served as secretary to Amon Göth wrote the list. Historically, unlike the movie, "Schindler's list" was really Pemper's list. Pemper's first hand version of the events are recorded in the book Der rettende Weg (ISBN 3-455-09493-7).

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards

• Best Picture - Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen
• Best Director - Steven Spielberg
• Best Music, Original Score - John Williams
• Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Allan Starski, Ewa Braun
• Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski
• Best Film Editing - Michael Kahn
• Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Steven Zaillian

BAFTA Awards

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Ralph Fiennes
• Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski
• Best Editing - Michael Kahn
• Best Film - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
• Best Score - John Williams
• Best Screenplay, Adapted - Steven Zaillian
• David Lean Award for Direction - Steven Spielberg

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

• Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski
• Best Director - Steven Spielberg
• Best Film
• Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

• Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski
• Best Director - Steven Spielberg
• Best Picture
• Best Screenplay - Steven Zaillian
• Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes

Golden Globes, USA

• Best Director, Motion Picture - Steven Spielberg
• Best Motion Picture, Drama
• Best Screenplay, Motion Picture - Steven Zaillian

Other Awards

• Amanda Awards, Best Foreign Feature Film
• Awards of the Japanese Academy, Best Foreign Film
• BMI Film Music Award - John Williams
• British Society of Cinematographers, Best Cinematography Award - Janusz Kaminski
• CEC Award, Best Foreign Film
• DFWFCA Award, Best Director - Steven Spielberg; Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes
• DGA Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - Steven Spielberg
• Evening Standard British Film Award, Best Actor - Ben Kingsley
• Grammy, Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture - John Williams
• Hochi Film Award , Best Foreign Language Film
• Humanitas Prize, Feature Film Category - Steven Zaillian
• KCFCC Award, Best Director - Steven Spielberg; Best Film
• Kinema Junpo Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
• London Critics Circle Film Awards, British Actor of the Year - Ralph Fiennes; Director of the Year - Steven Spielberg; Film of the Year
• LAFCA Award, Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski; Best Picture; Best Production Design - Allan Starski
• Mainichi Film Concours, Best Foreign Language Film
• Motion Picture Sound Editors, Best Sound Editing
• NBR Award , Best Picture
• NSFC Award, Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski; Best Director - Steven Spielberg; Best Film; Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes
• NYFCC Award, Best Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski; Best Film; Best Supporting Actor - Ralph Fiennes
• Nikkan Sports Film Award, Best Foreign Film
• PGA Golden Laurel Awards, Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award
• PFS Award, Human Rights
• SEFCA Award, Best Picture
• USC Scripter Award - Thomas Keneally (author), Steven Zaillian (screenwriter)
• WGA Award (Screen), Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published - Steven Zaillian

[edit] 1997 TV controversy

On Sunday, February 23, 1997, the film was shown on television in the United States, being carried by NBC with a pair of interrmissions by the Ford Motor Company (they consisted of the Ford logo on a black background, the film's soundtrack playing and a small clock indicating how long before the film resumes). Per Spielberg's insistence, it aired unedited and uncensored. The telecast was the first ever to receive a TV-M (now TV-MA) rating under the TV Parental Guidelines that had been established at the beginning of that year. Many fundamentalist and evangelical Christian groups, which had previously been squeamish about the movie [6], stridently objected to the film's being shown on network television at all, due to scenes of nudity, violence, and the use of vulgar language which were not edited out of the TV production. Senator Tom Coburn, then an Oklahoma congressman, stated that NBC, by airing the film, had brought television "to an all-time low, with full-frontal nudity, violence and profanity," adding that airing the film was an insult to "decent-minded individuals everywhere." Under fire from fellow Republicans as well as from Democrats, Coburn apologized for his outrage, saying: "My intentions were good, but I've obviously made an error in judgment in how I've gone about saying what I wanted to say." He said he had reversed his opinion on airing the film, but qualified it ought to have been aired later at night, when, he said, "there are still large numbers of children watching without parental supervision." [7]

The film was re-broadcast on NBC on Sunday, March 14, 1999, also with two intermissions, this time by Metlife. In 2000 some PBS stations ran an uninterrupted broadcast.

[edit] MPAA

The film was rated R for "language, some sexuality and actuality violence" by the Motion Picture Association of America, making this the first Spielberg-directed feature film to be given an R rating (all previous Spielberg films were rated PG or PG-13).

[edit] See also

• Escape from Sobibor, a 1987 film about Sobibór (a Nazi extermination camp), the site of the only successful uprising by Jewish prisoners.
• Life Is Beautiful, a tragicomic film about life in a Nazi concentration camp.
• The Pianist, a film about Władysław Szpilman's survival of the Holocaust in Warsaw.
• Train de Vie , a film by Radu Mihaileanu, a French director with Jewish-Romanian origins.
• Hotel Rwanda, a film depicting the 1994 Rwandan Genocide with a hero who also saves the lives of potential genocide victims.
• List of Jews
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
• List of recent films in black-and-white
• List of Holocaust films

[edit] External links

• Schindler's List, the movie's website
• Schindler's List at the Internet Movie Database
• Schindler's List on Rotten Tomatoes
• Filmsite review of the movie
• Roger Ebert's review of Schindler's List
• James Berardinelli's review of Schindler's List
• Film review criticizing the filmmaking technique in Schindler's List

[edit] Related sites

• The Shoah Foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
• Whosoever saves a single life..., a Holocaust rescuer's bibliography.
• Schindler's List at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films lists

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