Schindler's List

1993

3h 15m

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8.6/10

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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Directors

Steven Spielberg

Writers

Thomas Keneally(novel by)

Steven Zaillian(screenplay by)

Stars

Liam Neeson

Ben Kingsley

Ralph Fiennes

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Oskar Schindler

Itzhak Stern

Amon Goeth

Emilie Schindler

Poldek Pfefferberg

Helen Hirsch

Viktoria Klonowska

Wilek Chilowicz

Marcel Goldberg

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Julian Scherner

Rolf Czurda

Herman Toffel

Leo John

Albert Hujar

Mila Pfefferberg

Juda Dresner

Chaja Dresner

Directors

Steven Spielberg

Writers

Thomas Keneally(novel by)

Steven Zaillian(screenplay by)

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I don't know how I feel about this anymore. When it first came out I loved it. I thought it was a great film, but I was 13 and it played on my love for history. Now watching it, it's well done, direction wise I like it. But Mel Brooks did a better job with B&W lighting in Young Frankenstein. I know photography, I know film, and a lot of it I wouldn't have done that way. I wouldn't have done it that way and they are really simple lighting and contrast fixes. Some just comes down to a filter. And then Ralph Fiennes, you hated him in the movie, but you hated him because of who he was playing, and you were supposed to hate him. He's hardly in the film and he did the most memorable job. You almost forget that Liam Neeson is in it. Ralph he even outshines Ben Kingsley, and Ben's certainly made bad choices, but he's usually a good actor all the time. Watching it now, there's a lot that really should have been done better. I'm not 13 anymore, it's a AAA flick, there's a lot wrong with it now that I can't get beyond. It's not bad. I'd still tell you to watch it, it's still an important movie, but now it irritates me.

GenerationofSwine26 May, 2025