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Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally.
Feb 4, 1994 · Schindler's List: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Steven Spielberg
- 1994-02-04
- Sean Hutchinson
- The story was relayed to author Thomas Keneally in a Beverly Hills leather goods shop. In October 1980, Australian novelist Thomas Keneally had stopped into a leather goods shop off of Rodeo Drive after a book tour stopover from a film festival in Sorrento, Italy, where one of his books was adapted into a movie.
- Keneally wasn't the first person Leopold Page told about Oskar Schindler. The film rights to Page’s story were actually first purchased by MGM for $50,000 in the 1960s after Page had similarly ambushed the wife of film producer Marvin Gosch at his leather shop.
- Schindler made more than one list. Seven lists in all were made by Oskar Schindler and his associates during the war, while four are known to still exist.
- Steven Spielberg first learned of Schindler in the early 1980s. Former MCA/Universal president Sid Sheinberg, a father figure to Spielberg, gave the director Keneally’s book when it was first published in 1982, to which Spielberg allegedly replied, “It’ll make a helluva story.
Spielberg’s second film from 1993, Schindler’s List, tells the true story of a group of Polish Jews who avoided Nazi extermination camps with the aid of German industrialist Oskar Schindler during World War II. The drama—which featured notable performances by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
Feb 21, 2024 · All of which is why, 30 years after Spielberg won best picture and best director for his movie about Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from the Nazis during World War...
Jan 3, 2024 · But for “Schindler’s List,” the 30th anniversary has barely merited a mention anywhere, with only The Guardian opting to revisit it. But that wasn’t always the case, and those who didn’t see it play out in real time may be shocked at some of the critical backlash “Schindler’s List” received in 1993.
Dec 13, 2023 · Schindler’s List tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved 1,100 Jews from the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunition factories.
