Schindler's List: Is It Realist To The Story Of The Holocaust?

The Holocaust took place during the years 1933 to 1945. It was an attempt to remove all of the Jews, and other smaller groups such as homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses, which lived in the country of Germany. The events that took place during the holocaust were lead by a German man named Adolf Hitler. Schindler's List is a film about the Holocaust from a man named Oskar Schindler's perspective as a leader of a concentration camp. The film displays the five stages of the Holocaust.

Schindler's List is a true story about Jews and the way they were treated in the 1900s. A businessman named Oskar Schindler wanted to make some money so he started a company and hires Itzhak Stern to help him run his factory. Oskar then hired Jews to work for him because they were considered cheap labor. Eventually all of the Jews got assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp. Schindler did not realize how his employees were being treated, but eventually began to see how destructive his surroundings were.

Both Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s list and Polanski’s The Pianist have impacted society understanding of the Holocaust and the unjust treatment of the Jews, not to mention the ungodly acts of the Nazi’s towards the Jewish community. In particular Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List disregarded the social norms of film in the 90’s, approaching a sensitive topic head, disregarding numerous request not, synthesising a film illustrating the actions of Oskar Schindler. Winning seven academy awards, Schindler’s List transformed the education system, instigating the change of the curriculum in the United States from The Holocaust being a minor aspect of World War 2, to teachers educating students about the bleak history of The Holocaust, using The

Lily “Schindler’s list” directed by Steven Spielberg is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It presents the indelible true story of Oskar Schindler, a dynamic character who becomes an unlikely saviour of more than 1100 Jews. At the start, Schindler appears to be a German businessman who becomes interested in exploiting warfare. He uses the war to his gain by exploiting cheap Jewish labour to run his enamelware factory in Poland during WW2 with dreams of earning “steamer trunks” full of money. However, after he realizes that it is up to him to save hundreds of people working in his factory, he and his accountant, Stern, made a list of up to 1,100 Jewish worker names to protect them from Nazi brutality and relocates them to Czechoslovakia Therefore, Schindler was very influential during the Holocaust.

Spielberg’s portrayal of the Holocaust accurately represents the original events. The scenes throughout the movie successfully illustrate the horrific lives of the Jews and the hardships they had to overcome. The scene of the Jews entering the ghetto on March 20, 1941 accurately describes the difficulties they had to endure nearly 50 years ago. The disorganization for admission, verbal abuse from the Polish and harsh treatment of the people depicts the real circumstances faced by the Jews of the time. During the scene of the Kraków ghetto evacuation, Schindler views the appalling methods used by the Nazis to send them to the Plaszów labor camp.

This essay will discuss how the film uses these two techniques, in reference to the film, and to what ideological and political ends are the techniques used in the films with specific references from the film to support the argument. A Man with a Movie Camera is based around one man who travels around the city to capture various moments and everyday

Oskar Schindler is depicted in one of the scenes where he is on top of a hill looking down upon the divided Podgorze Ghettos and is watching its liquidation while sitting on horseback with his girlfriend next to him. However, history tells a different story for where they should be during the time period; well it actually just challenges the lack of proof that Oskar and his girlfriend could have been on the hill watching the liquidation but their presence was highly unlikely. (Crowe) Another example of the failure to include scenes that occurred in real life could be witnessed when Oskar Schindler is scrambling to produce names for Itzhak Stern to type into the list. This was a major scene to have in this film because the name of it was and still is “Schindler’s List,” this gave the idea that Oskar Schindler put together this list but in fact that would have been impossible. During the time that the list was being composed Oskar Schindler was under arrest for the bribing of SS guards and commanders, such as Amon Goth and for the “unauthorized aid of Jews.”

A labor of love drawn from events of unspeakable hate, Schindler's List is a masterwork in which Spielberg has met and surmounted the transcendent difficulties of making a viable Holocaust film. Moviegoers may be drawn to

Starvation, death, anti- semitism, mistreatment, pain, forced labor, abuse -- all are situations Jewish people had to experience How did prisoners endure such hardships? Was it better to focus on one’s own survival or to work together to survive? In the memoir Night and the movie Schindler’s List, director Steven Spielberg and author Elie Wiesel explore this idea. They explore this idea by showing Jews helping other Jews to live and survive during the horrors of the Holocaust in Night and Schindler’s List.

Steven Spielberg directed and co-produced Schindler’s List which dramatically tells the story of Oscar Shindler (played by Liam Neeson). Oscar Schindler was a businessman who arrived in German-occupied Poland with the intent of using the Jews in the ghettos as cheap labor for several business ventures he has in mind. The rapidly escalating war irreversibly transforms Oscar’s life in ways that he could not predict, but he would try to make the best of it for those around him. Steven Spielberg shot the movie in black and white on purpose to emphasize the bleak lifelessness of Poland during the holocaust. This creates a feeling of dark despair that allows the viewer to know just how melancholy life was for the occupied people of the 3rd Reich.

Schindler’s List The documentary like film, “Schindler’s List”, starring Liam Neeson, as Oskar Schindler goes into great detail about the holocaust, the Nazi’s political parties, and events. Though the war was started on January 30, 1933, the video begins in 1939 just two weeks after German soldiers defeated Poland. Once Germany was in control, Jews were forced to register all of their family members and ordered to move into big cities and then later on into the ghettos. Some Jews were lucky enough to find the safe haven that belonged to Oskar himself.

ntroduction The movie Schindler's List, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, and scripted by Steven Zaillian, was released in 1993. The film was awarded 70 prizes, including seven Oscars, and made the story of Oskar Schindler famous to a worldwide audience within days of its release. Schindler’s List refers to the actions of Oskar Schindler during the Second World War. His Enamel Factory had more than a thousand Jews employed in order for them to survive the Nazi suppression.

Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg is included in the list of the 100 greatest films of all times. The epic production took place in Kraków, Poland in 1993. It has being winner of multiple important academic and golden globes awards like “Best Picture” and “Best Direction” in 1994. The 3 hours-and-16-minute work of art is an adaptation of the historical novel written by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. Schindler’s List lies on the fabulous 1982 book which tells the real-life story of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who saw World War II as the perfect chance to become a millionaire by opening a factory with a Jewish secret financing; and he finally ended up penniless saving the lives of more than 1,100 Jewish

Introduction: For my film report I chose the movie Schindler’s List. The film told the story of so many Jews whose lives continued because of Oskar Schindler. He used his businesses to create a safe haven for Jewish people and families. He made a list of around 1,200 names, pulling them out of camps to be workers in ammunitions factories.

Midterm Assignment When one thinks of a violent film I feel as though a Tarantino movie comes to mind instantly. However, in this instance I chose a different violent film. In this assignment, I will be talking about the violence in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, Schindler’s List. As most people probably know by now, Schindler’s List is about the Holocaust committed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi German army.