| | | "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
Features: DVD, Black & White, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Spanish, French Subtitled
Schindler's List, a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional number of additional honors. Among them were seven British Academy Awards, the Best Picture Award from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Producers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago, Boston and Dallas Film Festivals, a Christopher Award, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards. Spielberg was further honored with the Directors Guild of America Award. The film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did. Directed by Steve Spielberg, the film, which also won Academy Awards for Screenplay, Cinematography, Music, Editing and Art Directors, stars an acclaimed cast headed by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle and Embeth Davidtz. Widescreen format, with THX digitally mastered picture and sound.
"...puts the Holocaust into bracing perspective" Desson Howe, Washington Post
"...brilliant, compassionate and ultimately ennobling film." Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
"...looks and feels like nothing Hollywood has ever made before." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's black-and-white monumental film based on the true story of Oskar Schindler. Schindler is a businessman in World War II Poland who uses Jews as cheap labor in his factory. After his workers are sent to a concentration camp run by a demonic Nazi soldier (Ralph Fiennes), Schindler and his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), devise a plan to save 1,100 Jews by sending them to his factory in Czechoslovakia.
| Features | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; English DTS 5.1 Surround | | Cast & Filmmakers | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Voices From the List | | About Oskar Schindler | | Cast and Filmmakers | | The Shoah Foundation Story with Steven Spielberg |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 1/22/2008 |
| Running Time: 196 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1993 | | Catalog ID: 23866 | | UPC: 00025192386626 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Hebrew | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, German, Hebrew, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: B&W and Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1994) |  | Steven Spielberg, Winner, Best Director | | Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg, Winner, Best Picture | | Janusz Kaminski, Winner, Best Cinematography | | John Williams, Winner, Best Music, Original Score | | Steven Zaillian, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | | | Liam Neeson, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Ralph Fiennes, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...Brutal and intelligent..." - Recommended 09/01/1994 p.112Sight and Sound
"...A near-documentary, brilliantly designed and choreographed....A privilege to watch..." 03/01/1994 p.47-8 Entertainment Weekly
"...Existential vividness unprecedented in any nondocumentary film..." -- Rating: A 02/11/1994 p.39 Entertainment Weekly
"...Staggeringly intense....Spielberg has done something that can't quite be said of any other film about the Holocaust. He has allowed us -- for the first time -- to see it..." 12/17/1993 p.44-6 The New York Times 10 of 10
Rising brilliantly to the challenge of this material and displaying electrifying creative intelligen - Janet Maslin
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is bril - Roger Ebert
Variety Europe 9 of 10
Marked by a brilliant screenplay, exceptionally supple technique, three staggeringly good lead perfo - Todd McCarthy
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