Schindler's List Movie
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Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
The List Is Life.
"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
| Liam Neeson | Oskar Schindler |
| Ben Kingsley | Itzhak Stern |
| Ralph Fiennes | Amon Goeth |
| Caroline Goodall | Emilie Schindler |
| Jonathan Sagall | Poldek Pfefferberg |
| Embeth Davidtz | Helen Hirsch |
| Malgoscha Gebel | Wiktoria Klonowska |
| Shmuel Levy | Wilek Chilowicz |
| Mark Ivanir | Marcel Goldberg |
| Béatrice Macola | Ingrid |
| Andrzej Seweryn | Julian Scherner |
| Friedrich von Thun | Rolf Czurda |
| Krzysztof Luft | Herman Toffel |
| Harry Nehring | Leo John |
| Norbert Weisser | Albert Hujar |
| Steven Spielberg |
8.90 out of 10 (209352 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Oh, please
posted on 24 Aug 2009Schindler's List is an awful movie: unstintingly sentimental
and heavy-handedly manipulative. The only reason it's so
loved is because of the subject matter. As presented in the
book, Oskar Schindler was a complicated, not entirely
admirable man. Too complex, in other words, to be the
central character in one of Steven Spielberg's
simple-minded morality tales. Practically the only good
thing in it (apart from its intentions) is the acting.
Pretentious Drivel
posted on 24 Aug 2009Schindlers list has everything. It's boring, it's horrific, it's pretentious and it's bad. I think the worst thing about Schindler's list is that it seems to be made for the director, not for the audience. It's Spielberg's message to his critics that he can be serious, but honestly, three and a half hours of black and white is trying just a bit hard, and the little red girl is just totally over the top. The worst part about it is the manipulative subject matter, the Holy Cow of the holocaust. Spielberg tries to tie up the seriousness of the plight of the Jews in World War II with the seriousness of his film making, and it turns out totally faux-arte. Give me a break.
I had nightmares........left a long time effect........
posted on 15 Aug 2009I cried through this movie.....I have never felt so moved, drained, upset and hit like a ton of bricks like I did this movie. I cried and cried........I felt badly for those people. I am really surprised Hitler was not the Anti-Christ, what he did was beyond sadistic and I hope he fries for eternity, nobody deserves it more. GREAT MOVIE! These folks out did themselves on this one.
A Harrowing Experience, but a worthwhile one
posted on 12 Aug 2009I have very recently seen this movie for the first time, and i have to say that it was a truly Harrowing Experience, this is definitely a break from Spielberg's usual style, the charming, inventive and visionary direction is neither present, or needed.This movie is dark and graphic reality, and it's depiction of the holocaust is one that i will never forget.Watching this movie is a very worthwhile experience, if it fails to make you think or it fails move you and stir your emotions, then i'm afraid you may have passed away and are not aware of it.A Masterpiece in film making, that is Awesome to witness.I have to give it 10/10
Overated and weak retelling of a tired theme...
posted on 16 Jul 2009I admit, I have never been a big fan of Steven Spielberg. I must also admit however that I have a great deal of respect for his charming and subsequent brainwashing of Hollywood, and how easily he has made himself a brand name that always commands respect despite having made some of Hollywood's most overrated and tired films. With Schindler's List he truly created some powerful images, thought provoking and inciting in how they make you react...BUT... That's about where it ends. The talent of Steven lies in his ability to pull the strings of an audience, and in placing his propaganda so effectively, yet in this film with such a weak cast (other than Ralph Fiennes who was very effective as opposed to the generally weak and painful to watch Liam Neeson) and tired subject he breaks no new ground. Not to say it did not have its beautiful scenes, the executions and murders were poignant and well done, but lost much of their effect being coupled with so much overdone melodrama and sap. Its about time Hollywood wakes up, we need new directors who are bold yet sensible enough to know that there is no such thing as too far, but are intelligent enough to make a film that can rely on something other than pure shock, and that sometimes just a little is not enough and this is perfect evidence of that point. This film would have been excellent had a master such as Stanley Kubrick made it, but as it stands Schindlers List garners a 2 out of 10 in my eyes and is one of Spielberg's better films, but if nothing else its far superior to ET and the wretched Saving Private Ryan.
Everyone should watch this film
posted on 16 Jul 2009This is almost certainly the finest film I have seen to date, with Saving Private Ryan, another Spielberg film coming a fairly close second. Everything about this film is designed to try and raise awareness of actual events in their gruesome detail. Spielberg should be credited for using moderation to get the message across. There are scenes of violence, but overall the film is all the more effective for the implication of what is to come. Fiennes is chilling as the camp commandant, doubly so when you realise that this was an actual person who actually did the things shown, and all this less than a lifetime ago. Cinematography was superb throughout, and the brave decision to shoot in black and white adds to the authentic feel of the film. The final scenes are particularly emotional, and many people in the cinema were crying at the end. This film should be required viewing for any holocaust denier types, or just to those who have no concept of how evil men can be to their fellow man. Many people in Germany were left shocked after watching this film, because it's not the sort of thing that is discussed in depth over there (according to my German friend). 10/10
The reality of a real story.
posted on 13 Jul 2009Most films, when it comes to the war genre, tend to hide the true violence and agony brought upon prisoners of war. Spielberg has put his heart and soul into this biography of the greatest hero the world has seen. In my opinion, this is the best film ever made. This is due to the fact that Spielberg did not only direct the film but he wanted to show what really happened to those on the wrong side of the Nazis. The use of black and white makes the film a lot more haunting and brings about the true evil of people such as Pfefferberg. A well deserved Oscar Mr. Spielberg.
The Importance of this Special Film In Relation to History
posted on 10 Jul 2009I would like to make my feelings known for the first time ever on the internet about one of my favorite films. I do not think that Schindler's List is the greatest film of all time (although I am absolutely delighted that it is rated at #4 on the IMDb list and was #9 on the AFI list of the greatest films ever in the last century) but it is certainly one of the top three greatest war films of all time. It was more than poetic justice that Steven Spielberg was finally vindicated when he was named as the Best Director of 1993 and this film the very best of that year. What made it special for me personally (since I am an Anglophile) was that the top four acting roles went to Brits: Liam Neeson as Oscar Schindler; Ralph Fiennes as Goeth; Ben Kingsley as Stern; and Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler. The fact that it was filmed in black and white with stunningly effective cinematography enhanced the film's uniqueness although it was obviously an Oscar bid by Spielberg, who had agonized over whether to have the project helmed by Roman Polanski before he himself took on the burden. (How ironic that only recently Polanski was justly honored for his great work for directing The Pianist, which I think is the best film since Titanic). I can understand why there is a continual debate about the significance of this film, but it cannot be denied that it is a necessary work of art and a very valuable history lesson, particularly now that we are once again a nation at war with anti-Semitic totalitarianism. I support anyone's right to free speech, but I am truly appalled that many Americans want to deny that there was even a Holocaust, or wish to forget what happened in the past, and find personal satisfaction in condemning this movie as overrated or mere Jewish propaganda to downplay any other horrific crimes committed by other nations in times of war throughout history. I was not at all surprised when Titanic became such a huge hit (the biggest in fact since Gone With The Wind) that even schoolchildren began doing book reports on the subject and the entire movie-going planet seemed to erupt in Titanicmania. Common sense will tell anyone willing to take the time to think about it that the Holocaust was the Titanic at least five thousand times over, and to be honest, I would rather drown in freezing ocean water two miles deep in the dead of night than face death in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. I still think it was ridiculous that James Cameron asked for a moment of silence for the victims of history's most celebrated shipwreck at the end of his Oscar acceptance speech, when Steven Spielberg merely (and politely) asked that the nation's schoolteachers "please teach this in your schools" when he was so honored for making a film about the most ghastly crimes of the millennium. There is a huge difference between escapist entertainment and serious enlightenment when it comes to movie making. Just ask Steven Spielberg, who has also directed some of the biggest blockbusters ever made. His heart's desire is clearly the driving force behind all of his films; Schindler's List most of all.
Emotional pornography.
posted on 25 Jun 2009Spielberg's much hyped film is a dangerous piece of work. It is unforgivably manipulative, using cinematic effects to connote horror and emotional involvement which serve only to distract the viewer from any sort of truth (in particular: the girl in the red coat, trite heart-string pulling). Yes, I know the intentions were good and that something like this should exist to continue the memory of the holocaust, but this is not it. This is emotional pornography, it's worthiness is sickening and it's heavy-handed nature merely bruises the audience into submission. This is how the tragedy of the holocaust will be remembered, a single story (with a seemingly happyish ending) with a hero. It's not totally factually accurate, yet it holds itself up as evidence. It is not. It is a fiction BASED on real events. Spielberg, with his influence, has rewritten history forever, a morally dubious thing to do. The photography is good, there are a couple of good performances (especially Ben Kingsley), the special effects are superb. But this is not a brilliant film, aesthetically or morally. It is disgraceful. If Spielberg was not Jewish himself, there would have been an uproar. It is a dangerous document. And as for playing it in schools (along with Amistad and Saving Private Ryan - both of which are as bad if not worse that SL) as has been suggested above, that I find very disturbing.This film, preaching on high morals has made a few people a LOT of money. I know it was in black and white and over three hours long (which is uncommercial) but if Spielberg wanted to get closer to 'truth' (b+w IS NOT TRUTH, these things happened in colour! Newsreels are not TRUTH, they only act to remind you of the distance between you and what you are watching) why didn't he use all German and Polish speaking actors with subtitles? Because it wouldn't have made as much money, that's why. I'm sick of all this worthy praise of such an incredibly dodgy film. Watch 'SHOAH' instead and maybe you'll all actually learn something.
Heart-wrenching
posted on 25 Jun 2009World War II is raging. Sleazy socialite and entrepreneur Oscar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrive in Poland and create his own kitchen equipment fabric with an army contract. His competitive plan? Use Jews from the ghetto: they cost less than Poles or Germans. What begins as a profitable business venture will soon suck Schindler into a dark world of madness and genocide, as he discovers not only his true nature, but also, to his horror, the full implications of the nature of his government.Spielberg had amused and thrilled crowds with a long line of blockbusters before this (few human beings with eyes don't know of E.T., Jaws or Indiana Jones), and had mostly disappointed when trying his hand at more serious material: Color Purple was fair, and Empire of the Sun felt oddly shallow. Being as they weren't really his stories to tell in any case, these films can be excused as mere experiments to prepare Spielberg for this tale which he had held close to his heart for a long time.What amazes about the story is that, in typical Spielberg fashion, it wastes no time. Each scene has a point, a place, and is maximized, and given the film's length and the nature of its story, the result is positively harrowing. Schindler grows considerably throughout the ordeal: the first cynical and opportunistic businessman starts playing a dangerous psychological game with the commanding Nazi officers, namely Amon Goethe (Fiennes). Seldom has human evil found such a frighteningly real incarnation than Fiennes's horrific officer, whose unpredictable fits of depression or violence keep the viewer constantly unbalanced. Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish book-keeper then confidant gives the film a beautiful heart, and the overall acting is universally excellent. Spielberg never lets his actors down, but Steven Zaillian's screenplay truly is a miracle of character development.Shot in staggering Black and White, Schindler's List feels like re-living History. it is brutal, intense and heart-wrenching. Spielberg has returned to oppression and war since (in Amistad and Saving Private Ryan) but has never topped this, nor ave most great films in existence.For one of those rare times, a film is worthy of all the huge praise and hype surrounding it... and then some.
The cruelest film ever made. This is the closest we will ever come to witnessing pure evil in film.
posted on 10 Jun 2009This, to me, is the cruelest film ever made. Sure, there have been many films that have depicted cruelty in it's most realistic and most non discriminating. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL showed us a very true depiction of the holocaust. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST showed us how far people will go to be known and to be famous. IRREVERSIBLE showed us a nine and a half minute rape scene that is nearly impossible to watch and to sit through without being forever haunted by it. SALO' OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM showed us pure innocence being destroyed and defiled by political right-wingers. HAPPINESS showed us how deeply depraved and how inhuman and mentally deformed some seemingly "normal" people are. VISITOR Q depicted a family whose members indulge in the most disgusting, horrific, and depraved and don't even seem to know that what they are all doing is wrong. MONSTER was a film in which a prostitute killed her customers, not because she got a thrill out of it, but because society left her no choice. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE depicted a damaged and deranged human mind and then showed us what happens when the body that mind belongs to is no longer able to perform what the mind wants it to. PINK FLAMINGOS shows us two groups of people who act in every bad and evil activity known to mankind, knowing that it's bad and not caring. However, SCHINDLER'S LIST in my opinion, goes even further than all of those films. SCHINDLER'S LIST is a film that all of humanity should be required to watch and sit through. I refuse to watch it again. SCHINDLER'S LIST was a film that affected me so strongly and so deeply that just thinking about it frightens me. I've tried to sit through it a second time and got about halfway through, but I just couldn't handle it and I refused to finish it. SCHINDLER'S LIST is the closest we will ever come to knowing what it was like to be a part of the holocaust. It is among one of the darkest films I've ever seen in my life. The film itself is about Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, who owns a company and puts Jews to work in it. However, on the opposite side of the structure we meet a man named Amon Goeth. Goeth is a man who cares so little about the value of human life that he target practices with Jewish people in the Ghetto. To say that the violence in this film is unflinching isn't doing the violence enough justice. We don't watch the violent scenes as much as we full on witness it in at it's angriest and goriest. People are shot in this film. We don't see people firing a gun and then have the camera cut to people falling to the ground. We see people helplessly held at gun to the head and then shot like dogs. We see the blood shoot out very violently and graphically. We see it coat the faces of the victims and the executioners. We see many more horrific things. We see bodies blown apart, tossed aside, and broken apart. We see rotting corpses cooked and we see the remains rain from the sky. We see children get butchered and slaughtered as if their young lives were worthless and expendable. We see it all and we feel helpless. The people who do it don't see anything wrong with doing it and even make games and goofy gestures out of it. Many people will have a difficult time sitting through this film, but it remarkably watchable. As cruel and as brutal and dark and gory as it is, it is a flawless film. The film's ending makes it all worth sitting through. It remains to be one of the most moving and emotional ending in motion picture history. The final thirty minutes are so heart wrenching, honest, beautiful, and strong that it is worth enduring two hours and forty minutes of non-stop cruelty. The ending remains to be the of the great endings in motion picture history. We may not recover from the film, but what we gain from the ending alone makes it all worth defiling your mind.PROS: -Absolutely perfect performances from the entire cast and all speaking parts.-Unflinching and honest depiction of the Nazi Holocaust of the 1940s.-beautiful black & white cinematography.-A true knockout of an ending! CONS: -none
GREAT
posted on 29 May 2009"Schindler's List" is one of the absolutely greatest movies ever made. I've seen it so many times now (I believe it is five or six), and it still has such an amazing impact on me. The closing scene of the film is so heartbreaking that I (like another user on this list) cried every time I saw it. This is an amazing classic.
An opposite reflection of the current world!
posted on 29 May 2009Now apart from the fact that this film was overlong, black and white e.t.c. there are other important facts of what makes this film bad.The holocaust was something no one will forget, but how many times have we heard from it now? They are just going on and on when they tell us at the wrong time. The Jews were innocent back then but look at the world now! It is the Jews of Israel who are murdering now in the middle east, it is them who are slaughtering young kids and old people and destroying homes and they are going on about them being innocent.I have met a survivor who is 85 called Freddie knoller in school and it was suppose to be a surprise to us that he is 85. It must be a horror experience for him but look at the Palestinians being killed, there are many young kids being murdered by Israelis who wont live to tell a horror story to young people when they get old.Steven Spielberg is implying that Jews are innocent but they are not and watching this film after looking at Palestine and Lebanon being destroyed by Israel makes me sick.If you watch this film, you must ask yourself "is this true, are they innocent people ?" and watch the news about Isreal.Other than that, this film wasn't really honest, it may highly rated but don't let it fool you.
Finest film ever? Probably.
posted on 23 May 2009Quite simply, one of the finest films ever committed to celluloid. Spielberg perfectly marries his now fully-matured filmmaking style with a small scale, humanistic, (and as-yet unsurpassed) perspective on the worst period in human history.And if either Tom Hanks or Tommy Lee Jones think that they will ever be forgiven for robbing, repectively, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in 1993 for their performances in Philadelphia and The Fugitive(?!), they ae sorely mistaken. I thank you.
I have seen this on a video, 10 years after it was released.
posted on 20 May 2009My uncle who came all the way from a rural area to downtown Chicago and showed off his Schindlers List tickets to us, the night of my graduation party, I was 12. Because this movie was banned in the Philippines for frontal nudity we had to wait it out until the video came out. At first I didn't expect much, was even disappointed it was in black and white. The movie is so detailed, so graphic. It seems to tell you all the secrets that you will never read in any history book. The detailed part of other people's lives is what captured me. Most particularly about Amon Goethe and his Jewish love interest, which was bitterly ironic. He chose to even let her go in the end. While it was creatively written, it doesn't focus on Hitler at all. In fact I do not remember Hitler's face being shown in the movie. The movie is all about Herr Oskar Schindler. The other good part about this movie is that one can politely assume not ALL Germans are Nazis. Oskar Schindler had a very big heart for ladies as well as Jews. Because it was focused on Oskar Schindler, it doesn't attract contempt from people who think otherwise. It captures almost all sides of the war, from the Jews point of view and from the German's point of view. Never a dull moment.
Best portrayal of the Holocaust
posted on 20 May 2009I've researched the holocaust greatly, and have watched numerous movies about the Holocaust. Schindler's List has to be the best movie I've seen on the topic. The frank presentation of the violence and indifference of the nazi officers is amazing. Perhaps the most intense scene is when the Schindler's Female workers are sent to Auschwitz instead of his camp. The presentation, music, and cinematography make it one of the best scenes in any movie I have seen. All of the acting is fantastic, but I find Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of Nazi Camp commandant Amon Goeth stunning. Also well acted is Embeth Davidtz in the role of Helena Hirsch, the jewish made of Goeth. He shows both the evil and human sides of the man, and acts them incredibly well. The cinematography is wonderful. Overall, this is a must see movie for all people interested in history.
Required viewing for everyone aged 15 or over, throughout the world
posted on 17 May 2009I've seen Schindler's List 4 times. Each viewing convinces me more that this film should be a legal requirement for all teenagers to see in school, if only to make them aware of man's inhumanity towards his fellow person.In this modern age, people feel it right to compare the Jews to the Nazis over their treatment of the Palestinians. This film, if any, shows up these statements for the obnoxious canards that they are. No nation can match the sheer brutality and calculated mechanisms devised by the Nazis. This movie shatters all illusions of the magnetism (to some) of fascism. It shows how a political movement by people, in the modern age, led them to carry out the most horrendous and incomparable massacre in the history of the world.The sad thing is that, despite the events of 1945, the world has not changed. Maybe, just maybe, an effort to make viewing of this film compulsory in the schools of the world, will educate the youth as to the dangers of allowing anti-semitism to become the raison-d'etre of a regime.
Excellent film, but flawed.
posted on 14 May 2009I found Schindler's List a wonderful movie. It is one of very few movies which are watchable over three hours. Moreover, one of even fewer which are moving, fascinating and entertaining over its three hours. It comes second to La Vita E Bella in terms of presenting the real holocaust, though - not in terms of realism but because in LVeB, we care more about the victims. In SL, we care about Helen and Stern, but not too many others. In LVeB, we care about the family, and so it is even sadder when the holocaust takes its toll on them. The most powerful parts of SL are either the scenes without dialogue where we see mass suffering, or where Liam Neeson places his demands for Schindler's Jews. The balance of sentimentality just wasn't right. In most of Spielberg's work, there is too much (I did fear it and when we got shots of the children, I almost felt like walking away) but in SL there was not enough. However, I gave it a 9, because the film as a whole was more than these flaws.
Pure Gold
posted on 30 Aug 2009I'm a man of few words and rarely comment on movies or leave reviews, however, after seeing this film, I had no choice but to. This film, although quite long, will keep you glued from start to finish. Steven Spielberg's directing efforts are remarkable and will have you in an array of emotions in showing the horror's of the Holocaust. The acting, music and costumes from all involved are second to none, and go hand in hand with the spectacular settings.Don't miss this epic. Do yourself a favour and hire, buy or steal to see this one, you will not be disappointed.10/10.