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Director - Steven Spielberg (ET, Jaws, Indiana Jones)

Script Writer - Steve Zallian (Spielberg also but not credited)

Producers - Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig
 
Cinematographer - Janusz Kaminski

Editor -  Michael Kahn, Bill Kimberlin

Composer - John Williams

Production designer - Allan Starski

Art director - Maciej Walczak, Ewa Tarnowska, Ryszard Melliwa, Grzegorz Piatkowski

Set designer - Ewa Braun

Costumes -  Anna Biedrzycka-Sheppard

Cast List

Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler

Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern

Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth

My Review

Only one director could pull such a sentimental and touching film off as Steven Spielberg did in this cinematic master Piece.  The cast is Perfect with Liam Neeson (Phantom Menace) playing the central lead as Oskar Schindler and Ralph Fiennes as the evil German who kills Jews for fun. 

The film lasts for over three hours and it is not all plain sailing.  The scenes are harrowing, some shocking and it takes a hard man not to cry at this film (I'm not saying if I did).  The scene involving a young child using a toilet to escape death shocks, but the precise camera work of Spielberg using his artwork to create convincing deaths is truely outstanding. 

Based on the Holocaust this film portrays the lifes of the Jews who survived the tragedy.

The film begins with Oskar Schindlers character being sculptured into a Womaniser, a man who only cared for his vast wealth and used the slaved Jewish population to further enhance his income.

As a man of great wealth and high power he enjoys the pleasures that most men would..  Oskar enjoys the high life, the expensive wine, beautiful women and the security that his business creates for him.

The film is set in the time of the darkest periods that people have had to be exposed to.  Millions of Jews are being wiped out so that the Germans can gain control over the land and destroy a religion that for many centuries has been attacked.

As the murders continue and the ever increasing death toll rises to disgusting heights, Oskar's Character begins to change.  He wants to save their lives and puts his own life and all of his money into saving some lives.  In the end he says over 1000.

This film is a true Masterpiece, I cannot describe how this film affects me but it chills me to the bone and I am moved to a tear.  The editing, the camera techniques everything is so polished, so meticulous and the music is so haunting.  As i write this review I am listening to the main theme and it is sending shivers through me, John Williams must be the greatest composer of all time.

This film will always remain in your mind once it has been viewed.  Use of the Black and White imagery with coloured segments to emphasise a child or the candle slowly burning away, like the lifes of the Jewish people are spell bounding.

This film is a MUST see!!! However this film is not for watching with friends as you need all your attention to be focused on the little black box which is emitting the rich images created from the hands and ideas of Spielberg.