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Synopsis
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Embeth Davidtz Helen Hirsch
Ralph Fiennes Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall Emilie Schindler
Ben Kingsley Itzhak Stern
Liam Neeson Oskar Schindler
Jonathan Sagall Poldek Pfefferberg

Production Crew

Thomas Keneally Book Author
Raymond Stella Camera Operator
Fritz Fleischhacker Casting
Juliet Taylor Casting
Lucky Englander Casting
Janusz Kaminski Cinematographer
Lew Rywin Co-producer
John Williams Composer (Music Score)
Anna Sheppard Costume Designer
Steven Spielberg Director
Michael Kahn Editor
Kathleen Kennedy Executive Producer
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan First Assistant Director
Kevin Bartnof Foley Artist
Jane Royle Makeup
Judith A. Cory Makeup
Angela Morley Musical Arrangement
Robert C. Jackson Musical Direction/Supervision
Robert Jackson Musical Direction/Supervision
Branko Lustig Producer
Gerald R. Molen Producer
Jerry Molen Producer
Steven Spielberg Producer
Allan Starski Production Designer
Branko Lustig Production Designer
Ewa Braun Production Designer
Michal Szczerbic Production Manager
Scott Millan Re-Recording Mixer
Kurt Luedtke Screenwriter
Steven Zaillian Screenwriter
Ewa Braun Set Designer
Ronald Judkins Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 1993
Runtime: 200
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
for language, some sexuality and actuality violence
Category: Feature

Genre
Drama
War

Color type
Deluxe prints

Produced by
Universal

Awards
1992 - Best Film - New York Film Critics Circle
1992 - Best Picture - L.A. Film Critics Association
1992 - Best Picture - Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1993 - Best Film - British Academy Awards
1993 - Best Film (Drama) - Golden Globe
1993 - Best Picture - Academy
1993 - Best Picture - National Board of Review
1993 - Best Picture - National Society of Film Critics
1993 - Best Picture - New York Film Critics Circle
1993 - Best Picture - Academy
1993 - Best Picture - Academy
1993 - Best Picture - Academy
1993 - Best Picture - British Academy of Film and Television
1993 - Best Picture - Drama - Golden Globe
1993 - Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1993 - Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1993 - Best Picture - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
1993 - Best Picture - Drama - Hollywood Foreign Press Association
1994 - Best Film - British Academy Awards
1994 - Best Film - British Academy Awards
1994 - Best Foreign Film - French Academy of Cinema
1994 - Best Picture - British Academy Awards
1994 - Best Picture - British Academy of Film and Television
1994 - Best Picture - British Academy of Film and Television
1994 - Best Picture - British Academy of Film and Television
1998 - 100 Greatest American Movies - American Film Institute