Schindler39S List Film

Schindler's List
the factory of Oskar Schindler , to Brnenec ( Czech Republic ) in 2004
Original Title	Schindler's List
Realization	Steven Spielberg
Main actors	Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Caroline Goodall Embeth Davidtz
Scenario	Steven Zaillian Thomas Keneally (book)
Sceneries	Allan Starski
Costumes	Anna B. Sheppard
Photography	Janusz Kaminski
Mounting	Michael Kahn
Music	John Williams
Production	Branko Lustig Gerald R. Molen Steven Spielberg
Company (s) of production	Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment
Company (s) distribution	Universal Pictures
Budget	25,000,000
Country of origin	United States
Language (s) original (s)	English , Hebrew , German , Polish
Format	1.85:1 - 35mm - Black and White and Color Its DTS and DTS-Stereo
Genre	Drama , History
Duration	195 minutes
Output	15 December 1993 2 March 1994
Principal (s) award (s)	View Awards

Schindler's List is a historical drama American directed by Steven Spielberg , released on 30 November 1993 , and based on the novel by Thomas Keneally.

Summary 1 Synopsis 2 Specifications 3 Distribution 4 Production 4.1 Genesis of the film 4.2 Scenario 4.3 Casting 4.4 Filming 4.5 Reception 4.5.1 Review 4.5.2 Box Office 5 Awards 6 Sources 7 Notes and references 8 External links

Synopsis

What follows reveals key moments in the plot.

The film depicts the true story of a Righteous Among the Nations , Oskar Schindler ( Liam Neeson ), a German industrialist, member of the Nazi party, which succeeded in saving about 1,200 Jews destined for death in the concentration camp of Paszw without the mask of the character through a little ambiguous and seeking to gain for the situation.

Not thinking at first that his advantage, employing a workforce in its Jewish cheap factory Oskar Schindler do will truly reflect the horror and madness that attending the Nazi liquidation of the Ghetto Krakow by the SS commander Amon Gth ( Ralph Fiennes ), especially seeing a little girl in red coat lost in the massacre. Therefore, it will attempt, aided by his accountant Itzhak Stern ( Ben Kingsley ) to save as many lives as possible.

While the camp led by Amon Gth ordered to close and thousands of Jews must then be transferred to Auschwitz , Schindler decided to buy 1,100 of these men to "shelter" by hiring them in the new plant weapons which he opened. He then prepares a list containing the names of those who will be saved. However, a way for women from its plant is diverted to Auschwitz. They narrowly escaped death and finally go to Schindler's factory. In this factory, it prohibits any wrongdoing on the guards and employees will even sabotage his own merchandise so it can not be fired by the guns.

A few months later, the war ends. Oskar Schindler and his wife leave the country because they are hunted down as war criminals by the Allies, but not before saying goodbye to 1100 Jews were saved and they have been offered by them on a ring the maxim taken from the Talmud : "Whoever saves one life saves the entire human family" (Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5 ).

End of Revelations.

Specifications

• Title: Schindler's List
• Original title: Schindler's List
• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Screenplay: Steven Zaillian , based on the eponymous novel by Thomas Keneally
• Producer: Branko Lustig , Gerald R. Molen , Steven Spielberg and Lew Rywin
• Music: John Williams and Billie Holiday (song God Bless the Child), Johann Sebastian Bach (English Suite ^No. 2 in A minor), Oyfn Pripetchik , a song in Yiddish , which is the theme of the girl in the red cloak, and at the end of the film Yerushalayim shel Zahav , a song in Hebrew by Naomi Shemer.
• Photography: Janusz Kaminski
• Editing: Michael Kahn
• Country of origin: United States
• Format: Black & White / Color (DeLuxe) - 1.85:1 - DTS - 35 mm
• Genre: Drama
• Length: 195 minutes
• Release Date:
  • U.S. : 30 November 1993 (first in Washington, DC )
  • U.S. : 15 December 1993
  • France : 2 March 1994

Distribution

• Liam Neeson (VF: Claude Giraud ): Oskar Schindler
• Ben Kingsley (VF: Jean Negroni ): Itzhak Stern
• Ralph Fiennes (VF: Patrick Laplace ): Amon Goeth
• Caroline Goodall (VF: Juliette Degenne ): Emilie Schindler
• Jonathan Sagall (VF: Georges Caudron ): Poldek Pfefferberg
• Embeth Davidtz (VF: Brigitte Berges ): Helen Hirsch
• Gebel Malgoscha Victoria Klonowska
• Shmulik Levy : Wilek Chilowicz
• Mark Ivanir : Marcel Goldberg
• Beatrice Macola : Ingrid
• Andrzej Seweryn : Julian Schemer
• Friedrich von Thun (VF: Jean-Claude Sachot ): Rolf Czurda
• Krzysztof Luft : Herman Toffel
• Harry Nehring : John Leo
• Norbert Weisser : Albert Hujara
• Elina Lowensohn Diana Reiter
• Leopold Kozowski : an investor

Production

Genesis of the film

Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Jews saved by Oskar Schindler , (the Schindlerjugen) mission was to tell the life of her Savior, even taking to shoot a biopic about Schindler with Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1963 . But the project failed.

In 1982 , the writer Thomas Keneally wrote the book Schindler's List after meeting Pfefferberg. The chairman of MCA , Sid Sheinberg , sent to Steven Spielberg 's criticism appeared in the live New York Times. Surprised by the story of Schindler, the director jokingly wondered if it was true.

Spielberg is attracted by the paradoxical nature of German industrial and expresses sufficient interest that Universal Pictures bought the rights and director Pfefferberg meeting in 1983.

But not feeling Spielberg to produce a major film about the Holocaust , trying to assign the development to Roman Polanski , who refused him too, finding the story too close to his, his mother died at Auschwitz and had lived in the Krakow ghetto.

After trying to assign the development to Martin Scorsese , who refused because he believed that only a Jew would be able director, Spielberg decided to make Schindler's List after hearing about the genocide in Bosnia and deniers of the Holocaust . "

The director did not ask for any salary in making this film. For him, that salary was the "blood money .

Scenario

The film adaptation of Schindler's List is written by the screenwriter and director Steven Zaillian , known for writing the screenplay for the Game of the Falcon ( 1985 ) of John Schlesinger and The Awakening ( 1990 ), from Penny Marshall , who can get an appointment to the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1991.

Kennealy had tried to make an adaptation in 1983 , writing a script of 220 pages. Spielberg then hired Kurt Luedtke , screenwriter of Out of Africa , but he gave up four years later.

When Scorsese was attached to the project, he hired Zaillian to write the movie script. Back in the project, Spielberg found that the draft script of 115 pages Zaillian was too short, asking him to extend it to 195 pages. Spielberg wanted to focus on Jews in the history , to extend the sequence of the liquidation of the ghetto , as he was "firmly convinced that the sequence must be almost unwatchable. He also wanted the transition should be gradual and Schindler ambiguous.

Cast

Several players were approached to play as Oskar Schindler , as Warren Beatty , who attended a reading of the script, but Spielberg feared he could not hide his accent , Mel Gibson , Kevin Costner , but Bruno Ganz and Stellan Skarsgard .

But it is the actor Irish Liam Neeson who finally gets the role of Schindler after Spielberg saw him in the play Anna Christie , played Broadway .

For the role of torturer Nazi Amon Goth , he was entrusted to the actor British Ralph Fiennes , after Spielberg saw him in Wuthering Heights and he found an expression of "sexual sadism" in the eyes . Fiennes was so like in Goth costumes Pfefferberg Mila, one of the survivors of the events, met and shook in fear .

To embody Fiennes takes thirteen pounds just by drinking the Guinness , to round silhouette ^, .

Thirty thousand extras were hired for the film. Steven Spielberg has also heard of children of Jews saved by Schindler for roles in Hebrew , and Polish survivors to play ^, .

Regarding the German actors who play soldiers SS , the film was, according to them, a way to get rid of family secrets relating to the Holocaust , why they thanked their having Spielberg opportunity ^, . One of the producers, Branko Lustig , who also plays the butler in the first scene is where Oskar Schindler , is himself a survivor of Auschwitz .

On the set of the film, Ben Kingsley , the interpreter of Itzhak Stern , Schindler's accountant, kept in a pocket of his coat a photo of Anne Frank , a young girl who died in concentration camps and whose diary was published after the Holocaust because look at the photo gave him the necessary strength and tone just to interpret some difficult scenes of the film .

Filming

The film was shot between March and May 1993 in the district of Kazimierz in Krakow. Steven Spielberg did not have permission to shoot in the camp of Auschwitz. The scenes of the death camp were filmed outside the gates, on a shelf built identically. He was shot in black and white, but six scenes: one in the beginning showing the ceremony's Jewish Sabbath , three centered in the red coat of a Jewish girl, one centered on the flames of the candles for Shabbat in the weapons factory tour and the final scene at the grave of Oskar Schindler.

Reception

Criticism

Schindler's List has been critically acclaimed since its release in theaters, earning 97% favorable reviews on the site Rotten Tomatoes , based on 58 reviews positive and 2 negative reviews and an average rating of ^8.8/ ₁₀ and average _^93/100 on the site Metacritic , based on 22 positive comments and 1 mixed reviews .

Schindler's List is in the Top 100 American Film Institute at the eighth position. He is also sixth in the ranking of the best films of all time on the reference site IMDB with a score of ^8.9/ _10. Oskar Schindler & Amon Goths in 100 Heroes and Villains of cinema. Following this film, Stanley Kubrick refused to do his Aryan Paper, thinking it was unnecessary to "beat a dead horse."

Box Office

Country or region	Box Office	Box Office arrested on ...	Number of weeks
World	321 306 305	29 September 1994	35
United States	96,065,768	29 September 1994	35
France	2,669,900 entries	-	-

The United States , first released in theaters so limited, the film is ranked fourteenth with 278 627. But since its theatrical release on the remaining territory, the film is up to ^the 10th box office with 7,257,805 in three weeks.

The film reached the second spot at the box office since its fourteenth week, with 62,656,498 in revenue to finish his career with an honest 96,065,768 in the U.S. after 34 weeks.

It abroad than Schindler's List is a better score. The film was a huge worldwide success, earning U.S. 321 million, with a budget of 22 million.

Awards

• Oscar 1994 :
  • Best Film
  • Best director for Steven Spielberg
  • Best Adapted Screenplay for Steven Zaillian
  • Best Music for John Williams
  • Best Art Direction for Allan Starski and Ewa Braun
  • Best Editing Michael Kahn
  • Best Cinematography for Janusz Kaminski
• Golden Globe Awards 1994 :
  • Best Film
  • Best director for Steven Spielberg
  • Best Screenplay for Steven Zaillian
• BAFTA 1993
  • Best Film
  • Best director for Steven Spielberg
  • Best Adapted Screenplay for Steven Zaillian
  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Ralph Fiennes
  • Best Music for John Williams
  • Best Art Direction for Allan Starski and Ewa Braun
  • Best Editing Michael Kahn

Sources

• (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Schindler's List "(see the list of authors )

References

External Links

• (En) Website
• (En / fr) Schindler's List on the Internet Movie Database - more complete version in English
• (En) Schindler's List on Screenrush