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Plot Overview. Schindler’s List opens with a close-up of unidentified hands lighting a pair of Shabbat (Sabbath) candles, followed by the sound of a Hebrew prayer blessing the candles. This scene, one of only a handful of color scenes in the film, closes as the flames flicker out.
The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewishrefugees from the Holocaustby employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neesonas Schindler, Ralph Fiennesas SSofficer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsleyas Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
“Schindler’s List” is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes. The movie tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saves the lives of over a thousand Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
Schindler's List study guide contains a biography of director Steven Spielberg, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
The incredible true story of the enigmatic and opportunistic businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. Schindler's List chronicles the trials and triumph of one man who made a difference and the tribulations of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of his actions. — Spiricom
Schindler’s List Summary. In the fall of 1943, Oskar Schindler, wearing an expensive suit with a swastika on it, leaves his apartment in Cracow, Poland, to take a limo to the villa of the Płaszów concentration camp commandant, Amon Goeth. There, he meets Goeth’s Jewish maid, Helen Hirsch, whom Goeth abuses.
Everything changes when Goeth receives orders to liquidate the camp and send the Jews to Auschwitz to be killed. Schindler spends the remainder of his personal fortune to save more than 1,100 of his Jewish workers from deportation—written on the "list" of the film's title.
