Schindler's List
Adapted from the novel by Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg’s masterful film tells the incredible true story of the courageous Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson). Initially a member of the Nazi party, the Catholic Schindler risks his career and life, and ultimately goes bankrupt, to employ 1100 Jews in his crockery factory during the Holocaust.
Schindler’s Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) serves as his conscience, as Schindler conducts business with an obstinate and cruel Nazi commander (Ralph Fiennes), who viciously kills Jewish prisoners from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Filmed almost entirely in black-and-white on-location in Poland, Schindler’s List does not downplay the faults of its magnanimous and unlikely hero, but relates a story of the triumph of the human spirit in the face of horrific devastation and tragedy.
Directed by
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall - Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagalle - Poldek Pfefferberg
Embeth Davidtz - Helen Hirsch
Malgoscha Gebel - Victoria Klonowska
Shmulik Levy - Wilek Chilowicz
Mark Ivanir - Marcel Goldberg
Beatrice Macola - Ingrid
Production Co.
Amblin Entertainment
Produced by
Kathleen Kennedy
Steven Spielberg
Gerald R. Molen
Studio
Universal Pictures
Writer
Thomas Keneally
Steven Zaillian
Music
John Williams
