The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
Acting
Dirk Bogarde's restrained narration lets survivors own the story.
Direction
Blair's patient interviews capture unscripted emotional rawness.
Director
Jon Blair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jon Blair made this documentary ten years before Spielberg's Schindler's List, using many of the same survivors who later appeared in the 1994 film's epilogue.
This film represents a crucial shift from Hollywood heroism to survivor-centered testimony, predating and arguably enabling the more famous dramatization that followed.
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