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Friday 25 August 2017

Let Your Hearts Be Broken. Listen To "Schindler's List".




"Schindler's List".
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"Schindler's List" is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, and scripted by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.


The film relates a period in the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman, during which he saved the lives of more than a thousand, mostly Polish-Jewish, refugees from The Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.

Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) were proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell the story of Schindler.

Spielberg became interested in the story when executive Sidney Sheinberg sent him a book review of Schindler's Ark. Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure if he was ready to make a film about The Holocaust, tried to pass the project to several other directors before finally deciding to direct the film himself.


Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over the course of seventy-two days in 1993. Spielberg shot the film in Black and White and approached it as a documentary. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to give the film a sense of timelessness. John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performs the film's main theme.

Schindler's List premiered on 30 November 1993, in Washington, D.C. and it was released on
15 December 1993, in The United States. 

Often listed among the greatest films ever made, it was a Box Office success, earning $321.2 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. It was the recipient of seven Academy Awards (out of twelve nominations), including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards (including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globes).

In 2007, The American Film Institute ranked the film eighth on its List Of The 100 Best American Films of all time. The Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2004.


"Girl in the Red Dress" from Schindler's List.
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Polski: Tablica pamiątkowa przy wejściu do Fabryki Emalia Oskara Schindlera w Krakowie.
English: Commemorative Plaque close to the entrance to
Schindler's Emalia Factory in Kraków, 
Poland.
Photo: 29 January 2012.
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