Top Film for Its Time but So Much Left to Be Told

Rating: 8/10 (30 April 2020)

This 1993 American semi-biographical film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a novel Thomas Keneally, it stars Liam Neeson as Schindler and was filmed in part in Krakow, Poland. In its time this was heralded as a breakthrough film, but since the fall of the fall of communism, so much more has come to light about heroism and collaboration that this film no longer has the impact it had upon release.