Have you heard of the movie Schindler's List?, This film about the Polish Holocaust won seven OscarsIncluding best Picture y Best Director, Best Soundtrack by John Williams, Best Screenplay by Steven Zellian, Janush Oscar to the Best Picture by Kaminsky, Art Direction by Alan Starsky and Eva Braun, editor Michael Kahn, and producers Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig.
Here we tell you a short summary of this movie and the key parts, so you can put yourself in context in case you haven't seen it yet. We warn you that this article may have some spoilers, but if you dare take a look.
This film based on true events, it was shot in 1993, set in World War II, directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, the screenwriter is Steven Zaillian. Film starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Abbeth Davis and Ralph Fiennes.
What is the main theme of the film?
In September of 1939The Nazis invaded Poland. Jews were imprisoned in ghettos and sent to concentration camps. German businessman Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is an opportunistic playboy with a flair for public relations who use the situation to make a financial fortune. Thus he began an interesting relationship with the most powerful Nazi soldiers, he opened a factory in Krakow, whose workforce would be Jewish concentration camp workers.
Schindler's shadowy right-hand man will be Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), a Jew who will take over the company. His goal was to create a list of Jewish workers under his protection only. Later, after the Krakow ghetto massacre, he realized the brutality of the massacre and decided to protect the lives of his employees, even at personal risk. From that moment on, his attitude changed and he ended up bribing everyone he could to saving the lives of 1.100 Jews during World War II, turning against the holocaust. What started as a very lucrative business eventually became an obsession for Schindler, in which he invested his money and his future in an attempt to save as many people as possible of the psychopath Amon Goss (Ralph Fiennes), the commander of a domain.
Who is the girl in red from Schindler's List?
This role was developed olivia dabroska, of Polish origin, with 3 years. She is a key role in said film, she is a Jewish girl found by Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) in the Krakow ghetto. Inside this movie that was shot in black and white it's the only iota of color you'll find in the movie. This becomes a symbol of hope in the midst of the Holocaust.
Currently, in 2022, Olivia Dabroska helps Ukrainian refugees by going to the Polish-Ukrainian border to ask for international help using her figure in the film as a symbol of hope and acts as a volunteer. But no further than fiction it is said that this girl existed, It was a blonde girl in a red coat who stood out from the pile of shots.
What is the end of Schindler's List?
Already reaching the final scene of the film, Schindler breaks down in front of his factory workers and blames himself for not saving more lives. At that time, Stern famously said: “Whoever saves one life saves the whole world”. A scene full of sentimentality that 25 years later continues to move the viewer.
The film is a novel about the heroic deeds of Oskar Schindler, but in the end Spielberg breaks his own narrative and ends with some real footage of survivors visiting Schindler's grave and they leave stones to give thanks, which is a Jewish custom. The director thus wanted to pay homage to the real person, and incidentally put a face on the survivors and/or his descendants, and end his story with an expression of gratitude.
Who puts the rose at the end of Schindler's List?
In the final documentary scene and the only color scene in the entire film, hands place a bouquet of flowers on a stone. Almost everyone in the audience thought they were Steven Spielberg's own., a particular gesture of this director that of appearing at some point in his films. But the reality is that they are those of the main character, Liam Neeson, who won an Oscar for bringing Oscar Schindler to life.
A black and white cinematographic success in the 90s
Spielberg shot this film in black and white as a documentary. Despite the fact that the studio did not want to do it, since it was archaic and unattractive for those years, this film managed to have a great positive impact at the box office. It earned $96 million in the US alone, and $225 million in the rest of the world. In Spain was also a success, It had more than 2,3 million viewers and a total collection of 1.164.702.000 pesetas (about 7 million euros today), according to the Ministry of Culture.
I hope these lines make you see the movie in a different way. And if you haven't seen it yet, go ahead and see it and tell us what you think.