Schindler’s List is a 1993 American 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 Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman who together with his wife Emilie Schindler saved 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.
- Starring : Liam Neeson / Ben Kingsley
- Genre : Biography / Drama / History
- Country : United States
- Language : Latin / English / Hebrew / German / Polish
- Director : Steven Spielberg
- Production : Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment
- Distributor : Lucernafilm – Alfa / Paramount Films of India / United International Pictures (UIP) / Universal Pictures Spain / Universal Pictures / Argentina Video Home / CIC Video / CIC Vídeo / CIC-Taft Home Video / HBO Nordic / NRK2 / National Broadcasting Company (NBC) / Prem’er Video Fil’m / TV 2 Zebra / Tiglon Video / Universal Home Video / Universal Pictures Finland / Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) / Universal Studios Home Video / Waylen Group / Yleisradio (YLE)
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Schindler’s List release date
- November 30, 1993 : USA (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
- December 1, 1993 : USA (New York City, New York) (premiere)
- December 9, 1993 : USA (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
- December 15, 1993 : Canada (Toronto)
- December 15, 1993 : India
- December 15, 1993 : USA (limited)
- December 25, 1993 : Canada
- February 4, 1994 : USA
- February 10, 1994 : Australia
- February 18, 1994 : UK
- February 26, 1994 : Japan
- March 1, 1994 : Germany (Frankfurt) (premiere)
- March 2, 1994 : France
- March 3, 1994 : Germany
- March 3, 1994 : Israel (Tel Aviv) (premiere)
- March 4, 1994 : Spain
- March 4, 1994 : Ireland
- March 4, 1994 : Sweden
- March 9, 1994 : Philippines
- October 1, 1994 : USA (Heartland Film Festival)
- February 23, 1997 : USA (director’s cut) (TV premiere)
- April 25, 1998 : Israel (TV premiere)
- September 1, 2004 : France (Deauville Film Festival)
- December 7, 2018 : USA (restored version)
- January 24, 2019 : Singapore (re-release)
- January 27, 2019 : Germany (re-release)
- February 28, 2019 : Spain (re-release) (25th anniversary edition)
Schindler’s List cast
- Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
- Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
- Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler
- Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg (as Jonathan Sagalle)
- Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch
- Malgorzata Gebel as Wiktoria Klonowska (as Malgoscha Gebel)
- Shmuel Levy as Wilek Chilowicz (as Shmulik Levy)
- Mark Ivanir as Marcel Goldberg
- Béatrice Macola as Ingrid (as Beatrice Macola)
- Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner
- Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda (as Friedrich Von Thun)
- Krzysztof Luft as Herman Toffel
- Harry Nehring as Leo John
- Norbert Weisser as Albert Hujar
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 Schindler’s story. Spielberg became interested 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 directors before deciding to direct it.
Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days in 1993. Spielberg shot in black and white and approached the film as a documentary. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to create a sense of timelessness. John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main theme.
Schindler’s List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. Often listed among the greatest films ever made, the film received international acclaim from critics for its tone, Spielberg’s direction, performances and atmosphere; it was also a box office success, earning $322 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. It was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, and won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globes. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindler’s List 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time. The film was designated as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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