Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Liam Neeson, Ralph FiennesDirector: Steven Spielberg
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Producer: Branko Lustig
Producer: Gerald R. Molen
Producer: Irving Glovin
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Lew Rywin
Writer: Steven Zaillian
Writer: Thomas Keneally
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language); Polish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Live, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 195 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: "He Who Saves One Life Saves the World Entire."
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, without a doubt, the best Holocaust film made to date. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes give realism and breath to the people they portray, representing three very different men: charming businessman Oskar Schindler, Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern, and sadistic Nazi Commandant Amon Goeth, respectively.
The movie begins in color, fading to black and white. If it seems odd that a modern movie would be in black and white, sit back and savor it -- it only makes it better. Spielberg does this deliberately, since all of the surviving Holocaust pictures and footage are in black and white. Schindler (Neeson) arrives in Krakow, Poland with one goal -- to make money. He's a charming man who makes friends easily, wines and dines the right people to get what he wants ... especially if it's a woman. If somebody does him a favor, he tells them he's grateful -- showing his gratitude with fine gifts to keep his new ally on his side. It doesn't hurt that he now has a large home in Krakow (stripped away from a wealthy Jewish family who were forced to move into the ghetto).
Every successful businessman needs a brilliant accountant. Schindler immediately seeks out a reputable Jewish accountant by the name of Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), aware of his past managing successful businesses. However, Stern is not impressed with Schindler and suspicious of Schindler's motives. "The worse things get, the better you'll do," he tells Schindler. Nonetheless, Stern agrees and becomes Schindler's accountant and business manager. Ben Kingsley, always an amazing actor, plays the man very well. Stern convinces his employer to hire Jewish workers from inside the ghetto, saving many lives in the process. He becomes Schindler's conscience without being preachy. In one scene, Schindler is "entertaining" a woman in his bedroom when there is a knock on the door. Schindler is angry, believing it is Stern who is disturbing him. Except it isn't -- Stern has been taken away by the Nazis and put on a train headed to a concentration camp. Schindler races to the train station, endures the arrogance of Nazi officers who are less than accomidating, and manages to pull Stern from the train and save him from a no-doubt horrible fate. His concern at this point is strictly monetary, since Stern runs the business.
Schindler witnesses the horrible, bloody liquidation of the ghetto. The residents of the ghetto who aren't sent away to concentration camps are relocated to Plaszow, a labor camp under the command of Amon Goeth, a Nazi commandant who takes delight in using Jewish prisoners as target practice. Ralph Fiennes shows himself a wonderful actor here, even before he ever became Harry Potter's Voldemort. The sight of Fiennes in this role is one that makes the viewer shudder with disgust -- the real man was evil, and Fiennes's eyes are cold, unfeeling in this role. Unfortunately, in order to protect his workers, Schindler must work with Goeth and stroke the man's ego with a faux friendship, while providing Goeth with large amounts of money. He does this in order to protect his workers.
The Schindler-Stern friendship is, in my opinion, the most important relationship in the movie. It is the foundation for everything, the List included. While Stern has been relocated to Plaszow, Schindler finds reasons to visit him, to check on him and bring him gifts that Stern can trade for survival. When Goeth announces that the camp is to be shut down, that the prisoners are going to Auschwitz (Stern included), he is prompted to immediate action -- he and Stern gather in the office and the List is created. "The List is life," Stern says, "And all around its margins lies the gulf."
Schindler relocates his 1,100 employees to Czechoslavakia, where they can breathe a sigh of relief in a safe location. It is a haven for his workers, where nobody fears a summary execution -- Schindler doesn't even allow the soldiers inside the factory. Schindler's munitions factory is, in fact, a sham ... the workers create nothing that will actually work, but live in safety with food and a warm place to sleep every night. Stern is the accountant, keeping track of the money and which Nazi officials need to be bribed to maintain the utopian status quo.
The best scene, for me, is the scene where Schindler and Stern shake hands. There's so much to say, but neither knows what exactly to say. Stern presents Schindler with a gift (a ring, created from golden fillings) with an inscription -- "He who saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler puts the ring on his finger and then extends his hand to his friend. Stern takes it, and Schindler covers Stern's hand with his own. A wonderful scene, showing just how far their friendship had come.
The movie not only tells Schindler's story, but also some of the real people on the List, of what they endured before being rescued by Schindler. There is some violence, but used only to depict the realism of Nazi brutality. Spielberg creates a moving, wonderful tribute to the real Oskar Schindler in the epilogue and rounds out this movie quite nicely. Definitely an essential movie and one I'm happy I have in my collection.
Description of Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
THE STORY OF OSKAR SCHINDLER, A BLACK MARKETEER DURING HITLER'S REGIME. WHILE HE EXPLOITED THE LABOR CAMP WORKERS, HE ALSO SAVEDMORE THAN A THOUSAND JEWS. HE COMPILED A LIST AND BROUGHT ASMANY AS HE COULD TO WORK IN HIS FACTORY RATHER THAN FACE CERTAINDEATH IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg's masterpiece ranks among the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during World War II. It's a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at its center--Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.
By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against terrifying odds. At the same time, he must remain solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Schindler's List gains much of its power not by trying to explain Schindler's motivations, but by dramatizing the delicate diplomacy and determination with which he carried out his generous deeds.
As a drinker and womanizer who thought nothing of associating with Nazis, Schindler was hardly a model of decency; the film is largely about his transformation in response to the horror around him. Spielberg doesn't flinch from that horror, and the result is a film that combines remarkable humanity with abhorrent inhumanity--a film that functions as a powerful history lesson and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the context of a living nightmare. --Jeff Shannon
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