schindler's list

     

Schinler's List is a 1993 biographical film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian, telling the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. It was based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, and starred Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern. The film was both a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Score.

Trivia about schindler's list

  • A 13-page document typed on April 18, 1945 with the names of 801 men inspired a 1982 book & this 1993 film
  • A line from this 1993 movie is "The list is life"
  • In 1996 France's synchronized swim team planned a Holocaust-based Olympic routine to this Spielberg film's music
  • Liam Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for playing a man named Oskar in this 1993 film
  • Spielberg wasn't paid for directing this film; he said it would be "blood money"
  • "It's Hebrew, from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life saves the world entire'"
  • Steven Zaillian said hello to both Oscar & Oskar in penning this 1993 film set in WWII Poland
  • 1993:Bookkeeper Itzhak Stern