Schindler's List 1993

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 195 min

genre: historical

theme: biographical drama

director: Steven Spielberg

Score: 9 / 10

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 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. 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 are 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.

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author	Steven Zaillian
award	Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film BAFTA Award for Best Film Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film National Board of Review Award for Best Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Auschwitz Brünnlitz labor camp Kraków Kraków Ghetto Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
director	Steven Spielberg
editor	Michael Kahn
events	Oskar Schindler Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust The Holocaust unfree labour World War II
genre	drama historical
keywords	a factory amon göth armed forces auschwitz concentration camp black market black marketeer brněnec brünnlitz buy capital punishment concentration camp concentration camps crimes against humanity czechoslovakia enamelware execute factory hang history of jews in poland itzhak stern kill lose making money morning munitions factory nazi nazi concentration camps nazi germany nazi party oskar schindler\'s enamel factory płaszów concentration camp polish jews red army rudolf höss sabbath schindlerjuden schutzstaffel shabbat survive svitavy talmud untersturmführer vitreous enamel war effort wehrmacht young girl zwittau
musicBy	John Williams
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Branko Lustig Gerald R. Molen Steven Spielberg
productionCompany	Amblin Entertainment Universal Pictures
publisher	Universal Pictures
recordedAt	Kraków
theme	biographical drama