Schindler's List (1993)

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers (WGA):

Thomas Keneally (book)
Steven Zaillian (screenplay)

Release Date:

15 December 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | History | War

Tagline:

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Plot:

Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Plot Keywords:

Factory | Businessman | Death | Jewish | Holocaust

Awards:

Won 7 Oscars. Another 63 wins & 21 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Liam Neeson	...	Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley	...	Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes	...	Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall	...	Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagall	...	Poldek Pfefferberg (as Jonathan Sagalle)
Embeth Davidtz	...	Helen Hirsch
Malgoscha Gebel	...	Wiktoria Klonowska
Shmuel Levy	...	Wilek Chilowicz (as Shmulik Levy)
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

Also Known As:

La lista de Schindler (Argentina) (International: Spanish title) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
A Lista de Schindler (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
La liste de Schindler (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Schindlers Liste (Austria) (Germany) [de]
Список Шиндлера (Russia) [ru]
I lista tou Schindler (Greece) [el]
La llista de Schindler (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Lista Schindlera (Poland) [pl]
Reshimut Schindler (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Schindler listája (Hungary) [hu]
Schindler'in listesi (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Schindler's list - La lista di Schindler (Italy) [it]
Schindleri nimekiri (Estonia) [et]
Schindlerin lista (Finland) [fi]
Schindlerjev seznam (Slovenia) [sl]
Schindlerov zoznam (Slovakia) [sk]
Schindlers lista (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Schindlers liste (Denmark) [da]
Schindleruv seznam (Czech Republic) [cs]
Shindorâ no risuto (Japan) (alternative transliteration) [ja]
Sindlerova lista (Serbia) [sr]
Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (Germany) (DVD box title) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some sexuality and actuality violence.

Runtime:

195 min | Turkey:185 min (TV version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Hebrew | German | Polish

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | DTS-Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-13 (re-rating) | Finland:K-14 (original rating) | Malaysia:18PL (re-rating) | Malaysia:(Banned) (original rating) | Brazil:14 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:M | India:A | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Denmark:15 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:16 | Israel:PG | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:R(A) | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Filming completed in 72 days, 4 days ahead of schedule. The same time was used for Steven Spielberg's other movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and War of the Worlds (2005).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Schindler goes to kiss the Jewish girl, he puts his hands on her shoulders. In the next shot, he pulls his hands away from her cheeks.

Quotes:

[first lines]
[a Hebrew prayer is chanted, followed by a flashback to 1940s Poland]
Krakow registrar: Name?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Am Ende kommen Touristen (2007)

Soundtrack:

Yeroushalaim Shel Zahav

Great movie

Many movies come out each year and we applaud them for their screen play, orginality and whatever else we can say about a movie. But only once in a long while does one come out and you say all those nice things, but one you will also never forget. This movie is more than just something for us to watch for 3 hours and 17 minutes, it is something for us to never forget, to teach us a lesson and to remember those who died needlessly along with those who tried to help those same people survive.