Schindler’s List
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Plot:The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Cast & Crew
Liam Neeson
Ben Kingsley
Ralph Fiennes
Caroline Goodall
Jonathan Sagall
Embeth Davidtz
Malgorzata Gebel
Mark Ivanir
Béatrice Macola
Andrzej Seweryn
Friedrich von Thun
Jerzy Nowak
Norbert Weisser
Anna Mucha
Adi Nitzan
Sound
John Williams
Directing
Steven Spielberg
Production
Steven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy
Branko Lustig
Juliet Taylor
Gerald R. Molen
Tova Cypin
Camera
Janusz Kamiński
Editing
Michael Kahn
Art
Allan Starski
Costume & Make-Up
Anna B. Sheppard
Crew
Bruce Minkus
Fun Facts of Movie
- When survivor Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set, she began shaking uncontrollably, as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Goeth.
- When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of this movie, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside for several minutes to collect himself. Upon his return, he told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”
- At his insistence (citing that it would be “blood money”), all royalties and residuals from this movie that would normally have gone to Steven Spielberg instead are given to the Shoah Foundation, which records and preserves written and videotaped testimonies from survivors of genocide worldwide, including the Holocaust.
- The original missing list of Schindler’s Jews was found in a suitcase together with his written legacy hidden in the attic of Schindler’s flat in Hildesheim in 1999. Oskar Schindler stayed there during the last few months before his death in 1974.
- Steven Spielberg was able to get permission to film inside Auschwitz, but chose not to, out of respect for the victims, so the scenes of the death camp were filmed outside the gates on a set constructed in a mirror image of the real location on the other side.
- Ralph Fiennes put on twenty-eight pounds (thirteen kilograms) by drinking Guinness for his role of Amon Goeth. Steven Spielberg cast him because of his “evil sexuality”.
- Steven Spielberg offered the job of director to Roman Polanski. Polanski turned it down because the subject was too personal. He had lived in the Krakow ghetto until the age of eight, when he escaped on the day of the liquidation. His mother later died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. After learning this, Spielberg immediately and repeatedly apologized for bringing up such a traumatic memory. However, Polanski would later direct his own movie about the Holocaust which contained many autobiographical elements, The Pianist (2002).
- During production, the atmosphere was so grim and depressing that Steven Spielberg asked his friend Robin Williams if he could tell some jokes and do comedy sketches while Spielberg would watch episodes of Seinfeld (1989). Some of Williams’ sketches, while played through the speaker phone to the cast and crew, ended up being part of dialogue material for his character in Aladdin (1992), the Genie.
- Harrison Ford was the first choice for the title role, but declined, saying that some people would not be able to look past his Indiana Jones persona to see the importance of the film.
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