Schindler's List

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Schindler's List

" Schindler's List is described as a film about the Holocaust, but the Holocaust supplies the field for the story, rather than the subject. The film is really two parallel character studies--one of a con man, the other of a psychopath. Oskar Schindler, who swindles the Third Reich, and Amon Goeth, who represents its pure evil, are men created by the opportunities of war."

"Schindler had no success in business before or after the war, but used its cover to run factories that saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews. (Technically, the factories were failures, too, but that was his plan: ''If this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.'') Goeth was executed after the war, which he used as a cover for his homicidal pathology."

"In telling their stories, Steven Spielberg found a way to approach the Holocaust, which is a subject too vast and tragic to be encompassed in any reasonable way by fiction. In the ruins of the saddest story of the century, he found, not a happy ending, but at least one affirming that resistance to evil is possible and can succeed. In the face of the Nazi charnel houses, it is a statement that has to be made, or we sink into despair." ---- Roger Ebert

Stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.

DVD

Widescreen
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1 ES), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Newly digitally enhanced picture and sound
"Voices From the List" featurette
"Behind the Shoah Foundation With Steven Spielberg" featurette
About Oskar Schindler
Subtitled: Spanish, French
Closed Captioned (English)

Curator's Comments:
Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Black & White/Color
196 minutes
Released: 1993
Rated: R

Country: U.S.A.
Language: English (Subtitles: Spanish, French)
Genre: Drama, War

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