Schindlers List
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us.
27 June 1958, St. Stefan ob Stainz, Styria, Austria
6 September 1968, Chernovtsy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
September 9, 1973 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
20 June 1961, Nowy Targ, Malopolskie, Poland
20 March 1971, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
13 September 1928, Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland
1943, Bulgaria
1943
15 October 1967, Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany
2 October 1936, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
20 June 1923, Brzesko, Malopolskie, Poland
6 December 1968, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
1964, Israel
8 December 1955, Bad Boll, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
1950
10 April 1959, Witten, Germany
1954, Pszczyna, Slaskie, Poland
16 March 1959, Recklinghausen, Germany
1963, Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
11 August 1965, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
1958
2 December 1965, Verona, Veneto, Italy
10 March 1981
February 23, 2016
It's an extraordinary work of vision and passion that raises even the gifted Spielberg to a new level of artistry. And like all great works, it elevates everyone who views it.
February 17, 2015
Spielberg ultimately remains Spielberg, finding his enduring themes within Thomas Keneally's novel and giving them the full Spielberg treatment.
May 06, 2013
What the visual immediacy of Schindler's List does is to prod each of us to fill in the gaps of emotion for ourselves. To put this another way, the more you are able to invest in this superb, demanding film, the more you are likely to get back.
January 06, 2014
Despite admirable intentions and the undeniable splendor of his craft, ultimately what Spielberg has told is the story of the list; he has not told the story of Schindler.
February 23, 2016
It was (and remains) irreducibly [Spielberg's] masterpiece.
February 23, 2016
With seemingly effortless grace and skill, Schindler's List balances fear and exaltation, humor and horror, love and death. It evokes, superbly, a time of savagery and grief, and the inexplicable, stunning compassion that rises within and against it.
January 07, 2014
For this film Spielberg has done the best directing of his career. Much of his previous work has been clever and some of it better than that, but Schindler's List is masterly.
February 23, 2016
Spielberg understands that that tension is a problem not just of filming the subject, but of the subject itself: that the tale of any one individual has to struggle to avoid being swamped by the sheer scale of horror.
November 30, 2013
Not so important socially as it thinks it is, perhaps, but even more important aesthetically and thematically.
May 06, 2013
Schindler's List is filmed in black and white, but the triumph of Neeson's portrait and Steven Zaillian's screenplay is that Oskar Schindler remains gray and enigmatic.
January 06, 2014
Spielberg uses stark, brutal realism to put over his powerful points about racism and ethnic cleansing, and the use of stunning black-and-white photography and gritty hand-held camera footage give the film a potent documentary style.
May 06, 2013
More than any previous non-documentary Holocaust movie, this one convinces through the accumulation of such detail.
