Schindler's List

"Schindler's List" is an American film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1993. The film is adapted from "Schindler's List" by Australian novelist Thomas Corneares. The film truly reproduces the real historical event of German entrepreneurs Oscar and Schindler protecting 1,200 Jews from being killed by fascists during World War II. It was nominated for twelve Oscars at the 66th (1993) and won seven awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Original Music. In addition to the Oscar, the film also won seven British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Basic information

Genre

Plot

Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall

Written by Steve Zaillian

Produced by Steve Zaillian Filmmaker

Branko Lustig and others

Released time

November 30, 1993

Length

195 minutes

Dialogue language

English, Hebrew, German

Production region

United States

Production company

Universal Pictures

imdb code

tt0108052

Chinese name

Schindler's List

Foreign names

Schindler'sList

Other translations

Sutra's List

Global box office

$321 million

Plot introduction

"Schindler's List" truly reproduces the German entrepreneur Oscar Schindler Leer protected more than 1,100 Jews from being killed by fascists during World War II.

The German speculator Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Moravia, now in the Czech Republic. At the beginning of World War II, he was a member of the National Socialist Party. He is lustful and enjoys life, and is a staunch member of the well-known local Nazis. He was very good at using his relationship with the SA leader to maximize capital. In occupied Poland, Jews were the cheapest labor, so Schindler, a shrewd war financier, only hired victims of the Nuremberg racial laws in his new enamel factory. These people got a job in the enamel factory and thus gained temporary safety from the ravages of the killing machine. Schindler's factory became a refuge for the Jews. Those who worked there were protected by the fact that they worked on important war products: the enamel factory supplied cutlery and bullets to frontline troops.

In 1943, the brutal bloodbath suffered by the Jewish ghetto in Krakow disillusioned Schindler's last remaining illusions about the Nazis. He had long known about the crematoriums and gas chambers built by the Germans. He had long heard that the water flowing out of the shower heads in the bathrooms and steam rooms was not water, but poisonous gas. From that moment on, Schindler had only one idea: to protect as many Jews as possible from death in Auschwitz. He drew up a list of workers he claimed were "necessary" for the normal operation of his factory, and bribed Nazi officials so that this group of Jews could survive. He was increasingly suspected of violating racial laws, but he cleverly escaped Nazi persecution every time. He was still willing to risk his life to rescue the Jews. When a train transporting his female workers was delayed to Auschwitz-Bill Kenley, he spent a large sum of money to recover the female workers back to his factory.

Soon, the Soviet Red Army came to Krakow and announced to the surviving Jews working in Schindler's factory that the war was over. One night when it snowed heavily, Schindler said goodbye to the workers. More than 1,100 rescued Jews saw him off. They handed him an autograph-initiated testimony to prove that he was not a war criminal. At the same time, one of them knocked out his gold tooth, and someone else made it into a gold ring and gave it to Schindler. The ring is engraved with a Jewish saying: "Save one life, save the world entire. (When you save one life, you save the entire world.)" Schindler couldn't help but shed tears. He regretted that he still had a car and a gold badge, because if such a badge was sold, at least one or two more people could be saved, and if such a car was sold, at least ten more people could be saved. Schindler did everything he could for his redemption. All the money he saved during the war was used to save Jewish lives.

After the war, Schindler lived in seclusion in a small town in Switzerland, penniless, and living on the relief of the Jews he had rescued. A few years later, Schindler died in poverty. According to Jewish tradition, Schindler was buried in Jerusalem as one of the "36 Righteous Men".

At the end of the film, there is Schindler's grave, those Jews who were rescued by Schindler before the war and have entered their twilight years decades later, together with their corresponding actors in the film When walking past a tomb, everyone puts a stone on the tombstone that represents "Eternal Gratitude" as a salute.