Schindler's List
Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by 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. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
Plot
In Kraków during World War II, the Nazis force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. He bribes Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials, acquiring a factory to produce enamelware. 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. 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, Schindler maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys his new wealth and status as an industrialist.
Awards
Cast
- Agnieszka Wagner
- Alexander Held
- Alexander Strobele
- Andrzej Seweryn
- Anna Mucha
- August Schmölzer
- Beatrice Macola
- Ben Kingsley
- Bettina Kupfer
- Branko Lustig
- Caroline Goodall
- Daniel Del Ponte
- Edward Linde-Lubaszenko
- Elina Löwensohn
- Embeth Davidtz
- Erwin Leder
- Ezra Dagan
- Friedrich von Thun
- Geno Lechner
- Götz Otto
- Grzegorz Damiecki
- Grzegorz Kwas
- Hans-Jörg Assmann
- Hans-Michael Rehberg
- Henryk Bista
- Jan Jurewicz
- Jerzy Nowak
- Joachim Paul Assböck
- Jochen Nickel
- Jonathan Sagall
- Liam Neeson
- Ludger Pistor
- Maciej Kozłowski
- Małgorzata Gebel
- Maja Ostaszewska
- Maria Peszek
- Mark Ivanir
- Martin Semmelrogge
- Miri Fabian
- Norbert Weisser
- Olaf Lubaszenko
- Paweł Deląg
- Piotr Polk
- Ralph Fiennes
- Rami Heuberger
- Razia Israeli
- Tadeusz Bradecki
- Tadeusz Huk
- Thomas Morris
- Wilhelm Manske
- Wojciech Klata