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In Krakow during World War II, the Germans have forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler,
an ethnic German from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler
lavishes bribes on Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials and acquires a factory to produce enamelware. To help him
run the business, Schindler enlists the aid of Itzhak Stern, a local Jewish official who has contacts with black marketeers
and the Jewish business community. Stern helps Schindler arrange financing for the factory. Schindler maintains friendly
relations with the Nazis and enjoys wealth and status as "Herr Direktor", and Stern handles administration. Schindler hires
Jewish workers because they cost less, while Stern ensures that as many people as possible are deemed essential to the German
war effort, which saves them from being transported to concentration camps or killed. SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant)
Amon Goth arrives in Kraków to oversee construction of Plaszow concentration camp. When the camp is completed, he orders the
ghetto liquidated. Many people are shot and killed in the process of emptying the ghetto. Schindler witnesses the massacre and
is profoundly affected. He particularly notices a young girl in a red coat as she hides from the Nazis, and later sees her body
among a wagonload of corpses. Schindler is careful to maintain his friendship with Goth and, through bribery and lavish gifts,
continues to enjoy SS support. Goth brutally mistreats his Jewish maid Helen Hirsch and randomly shoots people from the balcony
of his villa, and the prisoners are in constant fear for their lives. As time passes, Schindler's focus shifts from making money
to trying to save as many lives as possible. To better protect his workers, Schindler bribes Goth into allowing him to build a sub-camp.
As the Germans begin to lose the war, Goth is ordered to ship the remaining Jews at Plaszow to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Schindler asks Goth to allow him to move his workers to a new munitions factory he plans to build in Brinnlitz near his home town
Zwittau. Goth agrees, but charges a huge bribe. Schindler and Stern create "Schindler's List" – a list of about 850 people to be
transferred to Brinnlitz and thus saved from transport to Auschwitz. The train carrying the women and children is accidentally
redirected to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Schindler bribes Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz, with a bag of diamonds to win their
release. At the new factory, Schindler forbids the SS guards from entering the factory floor and encourages the Jews to observe
the Jewish Sabbath. Over the next seven months, he spends much of his fortune bribing Nazi officials and buying shell casings
from other companies; due to Schindler's own machinations, the factory does not produce any usable armaments during this period.
Schindler runs out of money in 1945, just as Germany surrenders, ending the war in Europe. As a Nazi Party member and war profiteer,
Schindler must flee the advancing Red Army to avoid capture. The SS guards in Schindler's factory have been ordered to kill the
Jewish workforce, but Schindler persuades them not to, so that they can "return to [their] families as men, instead of murderers."
He bids farewell to his workers and prepares to head west, hoping to surrender to the Americans. The workers give Schindler a
signed statement attesting to his role in saving Jewish lives and present him with a ring engraved with a Talmudic quotation:
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler is touched, but also ashamed, as he feels he should have done even
more. As the Schindlerjuden wake up the next morning, a Soviet soldier arrives to announce that they have been liberated. The
Jews leave the factory and walk to a nearby town.
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Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Branko Lustig,
Gerald R. Molen, Lew Rywin, Irving Glovin, Robert Raymond
Released - December 15, 1993
Length - 195 minutes
Music Composer: John Williams
Movie Distributed by Universal Pictures
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