Schindler and Stern prepare a list of people to be transferred to Brünnlitz instead of Auschwitz. Göth reluctantly agrees, but charges a huge bribe. Schindler asks Göth for permission to move his workers to a munitions factory he plans to build in Brünnlitz near his home town of Zwittau. To better protect his workers, Schindler bribes Göth into allowing him to build a sub-camp at his factory.Īs the Germans begin losing the war, Göth is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at Płaszów to Auschwitz concentration camp. As time passes, Schindler's focus shifts from making money to trying to save as many lives as possible. Göth brutalizes his Jewish maid Helen Hirsch and randomly shoots people from the balcony of his villa the prisoners are in constant fear for their lives. Schindler is careful to maintain his friendship with Göth and continues to enjoy SS support, mostly through bribery. He particularly notices a young girl in a red coat who hides from the Nazis and later sees her body on a wagonload of corpses. Schindler witnesses the massacre and is profoundly affected. When the camp is ready, he orders the ghetto liquidated: two thousand Jews are transported to Płaszów, and two thousand others are killed in the streets by the SS. SS- Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) Amon Göth arrives in Kraków to oversee construction of the Płaszów concentration camp. Meanwhile, Schindler maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys his new wealth and status as an industrialist. Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible are deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration camps or killed. Schindler hires Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business community he handles administration and helps Schindler arrange financing. He bribes Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials, acquiring a factory to produce enamelware. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. In Kraków during World War II, the Nazis force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. The film was designated as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindler's List 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time. The film won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globe Awards. It was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. Often listed among the greatest films ever made, the film received universal acclaim for its tone, acting (particularly Neeson, Fiennes, and Kingsley), atmosphere, and Spielberg's direction it was also a box office success, earning $322 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main theme. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to create a sense of timelessness. Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the film as a documentary. Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days in 1993. 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. Spielberg became interested when executive Sidney Sheinberg sent him a book review of Schindler's Ark. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's story. Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) were proposed as early as 1963. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. 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. It is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.
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