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Schindler's List

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Schindler's List
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195 min.
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United States United States
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Drama | Nazism. Holocaust. Based on a true story. II World War
Synopsis
Oskar Schindler is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune — and saved 1,100 people from likely death.
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Awards
1993: 7 Academy Awards including Best Movie & Director. 12 Nom.
1993: 3 Golden Globes: Movie: Drama, Screenplay, Director. 6 Nom.
1993: 7 BAFTA Awards, including Best Director, Film and OST. 13 Nom.
1993: National Board of Review: Best Movie. Top 10 Film
1993: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Film. Supp. Actor & Cinematography. 5 Nom.
1993: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Film, Cinem. & Prod. Design
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Schindler's List
1993
Steven Spielberg
8.6
(175,698)
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