The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Direction
Spielberg at his most restrained and most powerful.
Cinematography
That girl in red. One color changes everything.
Acting
Fiennes plays evil so casually it chills your blood.
Director
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson
Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley
Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes
Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall
Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagall
Poldek Pfefferberg
Embeth Davidtz
Helen Hirsch
Małgorzata Gebel
Viktoria Klonowska
Shmuel Levy
Wilek Chilowicz
Mark Ivanir
Marcel Goldberg
Béatrice Macola
Ingrid
Andrzej Seweryn
Julian Scherner
Friedrich von Thun
Rolf Czurda
Krzysztof Luft
Herman Toffel
Norbert Weisser
Albert Hujar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spielberg refused a salary, calling it 'blood money,' and used his own funds to finish production when Universal hesitated.
The real Itzhak Stern and Poldek Pfefferberg appear in the film's epilogue; Pfefferberg spent his life telling this story.
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