Schindler's List: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2005)

Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, is based on the novel written by Thomas Keneally. At the height of WW II, the Jews are ordered to register their family members' names and relocate to major cities in Europe. They are forcibly pushed into an area of only sixteen square blocks, called as ghettos.
Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a Czech-born businessman and member of Nazi party, finds the war a suitable opportunity to make money. Schindler, the womanizer, appoints a Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), and assigns him to recruit the Jews, including beautiful women.
Schindler's metal factory is the haven for the thousands of Jews to escape from the merciless Nazis. He slowly changes his attitude towards Jews and even persuades ruthless Nazi officer Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) to show his humane face. At a time, when the fierce battle is ravaging Europe, Schindler make his list of Jews to transport them to his hometown. Schindler risks his life and goes bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. Today, more than six thousand descendants of the Schindler's Jews are living in different parts of the world with his memory.
Nominated for 12 categories, Schindler's List won 7 Oscars.
Thomas Keneally's novel 'Schindler's Ark' is based on interviews with 50 Schindler survivors as well as other written testimonies and sources. To gather costumes for 20,000 extras, the costume designer took out advertisements seeking clothes. When permission denied to shoot the death camp inside Auschwitz, a mirror-image set was created outside the real location. The highly acclaimed, touching drama is the only movie from 90's ranked in American Film Institute's top ten list. Spielberg called Schindler's List 'the most satisfying experience of his career.' Steven Spielberg's emotionally packed melodrama drenches us in tears with its realistic creation of sorrowful Holocaust days.