Spielberg is enough of a master showman to break up the horror with small rewards.
Schindler's List (1993)
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Fresh:56
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Schindler's List blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tender humanism to create the director's dramatic masterpiece.
Synopsis: Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their savior. Unrepentant womanizer and war... Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their savior. Unrepentant womanizer and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labor to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But after witnessing the violent liquidation of the walled ghetto where the Krakow Jews have been forced to live, Schindler slowly begins to realize the immense evil of Nazism. When his employees are sent to a work camp, they come under the terrorizing reign of sadistic Nazi Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). With the help of his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), Schindler creates a list of "essential" Jews. Bribing Goeth, Schindler manages to get 1,100 people released from the camp and brought to the safety of his munitions factory in Czechoslovakia. Spielberg's glorious film is wondrously evocative, visually stunning, and emotionally stirring. [More]
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Norbert Weisser, Elina Löwensohn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Composer: John Williams
Story: Thomas Keneally
Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian
Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg
Reviews for Schindler's List
[Schindler's List] is a very good piece of cinema and those who are ready to spend three hours in front of the screen would be rewarded with a powerful, thought-provoking piece of seventh art.
Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.
Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match.
Schindler's List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.
Many might argue that, for all its excellence, this isn't Spielberg's best movie, but it's impossible to deny its standing as his most important.
Explores the mystery of goodness in this astonishing drama of a scoundrel's amazing acts of bravery and selflessness.
What is most memorable is not the tragedy of the lives lost or even the number of people Schindler saved, but how such an imperfect man could have done something so perfect
Spielberg is such a filmmaking savant that it's hard to tell where the cinema ends and the protection of his sanity begins in Schindler's List
Schindler's List s’inscrit parmis les meilleurs films de Steven Spielberg et se veut un portrait très réussi de l’holocauste et de l’horreur qui en découle.
Many of the images, like the invasion of the Krakow ghetto, unfold like a collective nightmare of unspeakable brutality and dread.
A classic that stays with the audience long after the closing credits conclude.
Schindler's List (1993) is Steven Spielberg's award-winning masterpiece - a profoundly shocking, unsparing, three-hour long epic of the Holocaust.
What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen.
In a severe, uncompromising manner that none of his previous films has approached, Spielberg has captured the terror of the Nazi reign as well as the determination and resourcefulness of those who resisted.
The film is as historically important as it is dramatic, and every high school student should see it.
There's no trust here from the director that the audience might be able to fathom the horrors of the Holocaust if the lines between good and bad aren't distinctly drawn.
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