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| Year: | 1993 |
| Rating: | 8.9(275465) |
| Listed in: | Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Directed by: | Steven Spielberg |
| Actors: | Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley Ralph Fiennes Jonathan Sagall Caroline Goodall Embeth Davidtz |
| "The List Is Life." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Steven Spielberg | |
| Actors | |
| Liam Neeson | as Oskar Schindler |
| Ben Kingsley | as Itzhak Stern |
| Ralph Fiennes | as Amon Goeth |
| Jonathan Sagall | as Poldek Pfefferberg |
| Shmuel Levy | as Wilek Chilowicz |
| Mark Ivanir | as Marcel Goldberg |
| Andrzej Seweryn | as Julian Scherner |
| Friedrich von Thun | as Rolf Czurda |
| Krzysztof Luft | as Herman Toffel |
| Harry Nehring | as Leo John |
| Norbert Weisser | as Albert Hujar |
| Michael Schneider | as Juda Dresner |
| Albert Misak | as Mordecai Wulkan |
| Michael Gordon | as Mr. Nussbaum |
| Jacek Wójcicki | as Henry Rosner |
| Piotr Polk | as Leo Rosner |
| Ezra Dagan | as Rabbi Menasha Lewartow |
| Rami Heuberger | as Josef Bau |
| Leopold Kozlowski | as Investor |
| Jerzy Nowak | as Investor |
| Uri Avrahami | as Chaim Nowak |
| Adam Siemion | as O.D./Chicken Boy |
| Pawel Delag | as Dolek Horowitz |
| Shabtai Konorti | as Garage Mechanic |
| Henryk Bista | as Mr. Löwenstein |
| Tadeusz Bradecki | as DEF Foreman |
| Wojciech Klata | as Lisiek |
| Grzegorz Kwas | as Mietek Pemper |
| Vili Matula | as Investigator |
| Stanislaw Koczanowicz | as Doorman |
| Hans-Jörg Assmann | as Julius Madritsch |
| August Schmölzer | as Dieter Reeder |
| Ludger Pistor | as Josef Liepold |
| Branko Lustig | as Nightclub Maitre D' |
| Artus Maria Matthiessen | as Treblinka Commandant |
| Hans-Michael Rehberg | as Rudolph Hoss |
| Eugeniusz Priwieziencew | as Waiter |
| Michael Z. Hoffmann | as Montelupich Colonel |
| Erwin Leder | as Waffen SS Officer |
| Jochen Nickel | as Wilhelm Kunde |
| Andrzej Welminski | as Dr. Blancke |
| Daniel Del Ponte | as Dr. Josef Mengele |
| Marian Glinka | as DEF SS Officer |
| Grzegorz Damiecki | as SS Sergeant Kunder |
| Stanislaw Brejdygant | as DEF Guard |
| Olaf Lubaszenko | as Auschwitz Guard |
| Haymon Maria Buttinger | as Auschwitz Guard |
| Peter Appiano | as Auschwitz Guard |
| Jacek Pulanecki | as Brinnlitz Guard |
| Tomasz Dedek | as Gestapo Agent |
| Slawomir Holland | as Gestapo Agent |
| Martin Semmelrogge | as Waffen SS Man |
| Tadeusz Huk | as Brinnlitz Gestapo Agent |
| Gerald Alexander Held | as SS Bureaucrat |
| Piotr Cyrwus | as Ukrainian Guard |
| Joachim Paul Assböck | as Klaus Tauber, Gestapo Clerk |
| Osman Ragheb | as Border Guard |
| Maciej Orlos | as German Clerk |
| Marek Wrona | as Toffel's Secretary |
| Zbigniew Kozlowski | as Scherer's Secretary |
| Dieter Witting | as Bosch |
| Jeremy Flynn | as Brinnlitz Man |
| Jan Jurewicz | as Russian Officer |
| Wieslaw Komasa | as Plaszów Depot SS Guard |
| Maciej Kozlowski | as SS Guard, Zablocie |
| Martin S. Bergmann | as SS NCO, Zablocie |
| Wilhelm Manske | as SS NCO, Ghetto |
| Peter Flechtner | as SS NCO, Ghetto |
| Sigurd Bemme | as SS NCO, Ghetto |
| Jerzy Sagan | as Old Ghetto Man |
| Dariusz Szymaniak | as Prisoner at Depot |
| Dirk Bender | as Clerk at Depot |
| Maciej Winkler | as Black Marketeer |
| Radoslaw Krzyzowski | as Black Marketeer |
| Jacek Lenczowski | as Black Marketeer |
| Sebastian Skalski | as Stableboy |
| Ryszard Radwanski | as Pankiewicz |
| Piotr Kadlcik | as Man in Pharmacy |
| Lech Niebielski | as NCO - Plaszów |
| Thomas Morris | as Grun |
| Sebastian Konrad | as Engineer |
| Danny Marcu | as Ghetto Man |
| Hans Rosner | as Ghetto Man |
| Edward Linde-Lubaszenko | as Brinnlitz Priest |
| Alexander Strobele | as Monterlupich Prisoner |
| Georges Kern | as Depot Master |
| Alexander Buczolich | as Plaszów SS Guard |
| Michael Schiller | as Plaszów SS Guard |
| Götz Otto | as Plaszów SS Guard |
| Wolfgang Seidenberg | as Plaszów SS Guard |
| Hubert Kramar | as Plaszów SS Guard |
| Joseph Bau | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Janek Dresner | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Ryszard Horowitz | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Maciej Kowalewski | as Boy |
| Kamil Krawiec | as Little Jewish Boy |
| Leopold Pfefferberg | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Henry Rosner | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Leopold Rosner | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Olek Rosner | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Ben Talar | as Jewish Boy |
| Mordeci Wulkan | as Himself - Schindler Mourner |
| Actresses | |
| Caroline Goodall | as Emilie Schindler |
| Embeth Davidtz | as Helen Hirsch |
| Malgoscha Gebel | as Wiktoria Klonowska |
| Béatrice Macola | as Ingrid |
| Adi Nitzan | as Mila Pfefferberg |
| Miri Fabian | as Chaja Dresner |
| Anna Mucha | as Danka Dresner |
| Aldona Grochal | as Mrs. Nussbaum |
| Beata Paluch | as Manci Rosner |
| Beata Deskur | as Rebecca Tannenbaum |
| Magdalena Dandourian | as Nuisa Horowitz |
| Oliwia Dabrowska | as Red Genia |
| Elina Löwensohn | as Diana Reiter |
| Ewa Kolasinska | as Irrational Woman |
| Bettina Kupfer | as Regina Perlman |
| Geno Lechner | as Majola |
| Beata Rybotycka | as Club Singer |
| Marcin Grzymowicz | as Czurda's Secretary |
| Magdalena Komornicka | as Goeth's Girl |
| Agnieszka Krukówna | as Czurda's Girl |
| Anemona Knut | as Polish Girl |
| Agnieszka Wagner | as Brinnlitz Girl |
| Etl Szyc | as Ghetto Woman |
| Lucyna Zabawa | as Ghetto Woman |
| Ruth Farhi | as Old Jewish Woman |
| Hanna Kossowska | as Ghetto Doctor |
| Maja Ostaszewska | as Frantic Woman |
| Lidia Wyrobiec-Bank | as Clara Sternberg |
| Ravit Ferera | as Maria Mischel |
| Agnieszka Korzeniowska | as Ghetto Girl |
| Dominika Bednarczyk | as Ghetto Girl |
| Alicja Kubaszewska | as Ghetto Girl |
| Razia Israeli | as Plaszów Jewish Girl |
| Dorit Seadia | as Plaszów Jewish Girl |
| Esti Yerushalmi | as Plaszów Jewish Girl |
| Rebeka Bau | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Marta Bizon | as Dancer |
| Michelle Csitos | |
| Danka Dresner | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Nuisia Horowitz | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Zuzanna Lipiec | as Woman |
| Maria Peszek | as Young Worker |
| Mila Pfefferberg | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Helen Rosner | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Manci Rosner | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Emilie Schindler | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Katarzyna Smiechowicz | as German Girl |
| Mrs. Itzhak Stern | as Herself - Schindler Mourner |
| Katarzyna Tlalka | as Worker in Factory |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Hebrew, German, Polish |
| Filming dates: | 1 March 1993 - 23 May 1993 |
| Budget: | USD 25,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 96,045,248 USD (25 September 1994) UK - 9,918,907 GBP (21 April 1994) Worldwide - 221,000,000 USD (except USA) Germany - 63,887,013 DEM (29 June 1994) |
| Plot: | "Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers. |
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"MAMATSCHI (MOMMY, BUY ME A PONY)" Written by Oskar Schima and Franz Xaver Kappus (as F.X. Kappus) Performed by Mimi Thoma Courtesy of The RCA Records Label of BMG Music "GOD BLESS THE CHILD" Written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. Performed by Billie Holiday Courtesy of MCA Records "LA CAPRICIEUSE OPUS 17" Composed by Edward Elgar Arranged by Jascha Heifetz Performed by Itzhak Perlman on Violin and Sam Sanders on Piano Courtesy of EMI Classics Under license from CEMA Special Markets "DIE HOLZAUKTION" Written by Otto Teich Performed by Rudi Scherfling With the Egon Kaiser Orchestra Courtesy of BMG Ariola Muenchen GmbH "GUTE NACHT MUTTER" Composed by Werner Bochmann Text by Erwin Lehnow Arranged by Werner Eisbrenner for Electrola Performed by Wilhelm Strienz and FFB Orchestra Conducted by Werner Eisbrenner Courtesy of EMI Classics Under license from CEMA Special Markets "OYF'N Pripeshok" Composed by Mark Warschafsky Performed by The Li-Ron Herzeliya Children's Choir Tel-Aviv Conducted by Ronit Shapira "Yeroushalaim Shel Zahav" (Jerusalem of Gold) Written by Naomi Shemer Performed by The Ramat Gan Chamber Choir Tel-Aviv Conducted by Hana Tzur "POR UNA CABEZA" (uncredited) Music by Carlos Gardel "Meine Lippen, si küssen so heiss" (uncredited) from operetta "Giuditta" Music by Franz Lehár (plays workers welcome Schindler, then kisses to girls) |
Goofs
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Continuity: Placement of Stern's arm around a one-armed worker at Oskar Schindler's warehouse. Fact errors: Oskar Schindler was never awarded the Golden Nazi Party Badge, and thus couldn't have sold it to save more Jews. In any event, all but a few of the badges were made of gold-plated brass. Fact errors: The Golden Party Badge (Goldenes Parteiabzeichen) that Oskar Schindler is holding is the 'large' military version and not the civilian type that he would have had, if he had been awarded one. Continuity: When Schindler goes to kiss the Jewish girl, he puts his hands on her shoulders. In the next shot, he pulls his hands away from her cheeks. Continuity: When the boy is caught by the Nazi troops, he drops his case next to his feet. When we cut back to him, the bag is a meter away. Continuity: When Oskar Schindler is reprimanded for kissing the Jewish girl by the SS officer, the SS officer picks up his cup twice in the same sentence. Revealing mistakes: At the train station, when Oskar Schindler saves Itzhak Stern from being sent away, an officer is seen flipping through pages of names, but all the pages are exactly the same. Continuity: The position of Amon Goeth's arms as he is talking to Helen in the basement before he beats her. Continuity: When Oskar Schindler is in bed with his wife and talking, his head is resting on her. But in the next shot, when she leans up/turns over to talk to him he is a lot further away from her. DATE: Yerushalayim shel Zahav was not written until twenty years after WWII (see trivia). Continuity: When the kid is painting the letters "DIREKTOR" for the first time, a serif font is used. In a subsequent shot the word is shown in a san-serif, bolder, almost stencil-like font. The size of the word is also much larger than before. DATE: The bottle of Hennessy cognac as seen in the movie is the new shape released in 1990s. The original bottle shape was taller and had different label. Revealing mistakes: Just after the little boy is held up to pull down another icicle from the roof of the train, the camera angle switches to the exterior and pulls back to show the train going by with no trace of snow or ice anywhere else on the train except right over that one doorway. Crew: When Oskar Schindler and Itzhak Stern negotiate with the Jewish investors outside the ghetto, Steven Spielberg is reflected on the rear window (his jacket is blowing in the wind). Continuity: In the opening sequence when Oskar Schindler is preparing for the party (dressing up, getting money) the shape of his hands (and nails) differs from shot to shot. Continuity: When the train of women is pulling into Aushwitz, ramps are already in place next to the track. They then disappear, and are put in place when the train stops. SYNC: In the scene were Amon is picking a servant, he moves to a Jewish girl that does not raise her hand and asks her to get in his car. When he tells her to speak up, his voice is heard but his lips are not moving. Crew: The scene inside the cellar between Oskar Schindler and the maid, when she faces the camera head on, there is no light coming from the right, yet as the scene progresses and the shot tightens, somebody turns on a light which becomes visible as they cut to her left and her head tilts forward. Continuity: When Oskar Schindler first meets Amon over lunch, there is an officer who pours water twice, from two different angles. Continuity: Oskar Schindler sits down at Amon's table for lunch, getting ready to eat, with the camera looking from behind Amon. When they change angles you can see him already chewing the food. Continuity: The opening sequence in the train station, one can clearly see that there is no metal cover where the guy is setting up the table, yet as they begin to take names, it seems that the action is happening in a different place. Continuity: The sequence of Oskar Schindler interviewing for a secretary position opens with a wide shot showing furniture in the room that is covered while the walls are being painted. Once it cuts to a close shot, the furniture is gone. DATE: The Billie Holiday song heard from a radio is not the wartime recording stated on the end credits. It's a later version from the 1950s. DATE: When one train of the male Jews were taken to "Czechoslovakia" (wrong name for that history period) we can see some electric columns for electric rail tracks. That could be impossible because till the end of War there was no electric tracks in that area. Even all locomotives were steam-engine. CHAR: After the little boy takes the saddle out of the car and after Oskar Schindler says thank you - he passes on some cigarettes to an SS personnel at the camp and Schindler calls him "Rottenführer", but the rank/insignia of the SS man responds to a different rank called Sturmmann which is one rank lower than the Rottenführer rank. Crew: The first time Amon Goeth shoots a Jewish prisoner, the large dirt squib is clearly visible in the background before it detonates. Fact errors: The hanging of Amon Goeth looks absolutely nothing like the actual film footage of the execution. Place, clothing, procedures, number of people involved and the graphic events that took place are all wrong. Continuity: When the men use a little boy to get ice from the roof of the train while they're going to Oskar Schindler's factory, the barbed wire on the window is in a zig-zag pattern, but the exterior shot reveals a line pattern. DATE: "Der fröhliche Wanderer" or "Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann," known in English as "The Happy Wanderer" was written after WWII. This is the song being lead by Oskar Schindler in the cabaret at the beginning of the movie. FAIR: In the scene where they are separating the healthy from the sick, one of the men running naked is clearly not circumcised. However, many of the Jewish prisoners were not Torah observant but in fact had been assimilated into Gentile society, and thus may not have been, in fact, circumcised. Continuity: In the scene where Goeth attempts to shoot the Rabbi for producing too few hinges, he first draws his military issue Luger and it repeatedly misfires. He then pulls a semi-automatic pistol out of his pocket, and it too misfires. As he walks away disgusted he drops the automatic pistol on the ground, but amazingly it has morphed into a revolver when it hits the ground and is picked up by his subordinate officers. DATE: When the Nazis are separating healthy and sick prisoners, they play two shellac records. The second disc is labeled "Fogg Records", but Mieczyslaw Fogg founded his record company after the war; moreover Fogg recorded mostly (if not only) Polish performers at his studio, and that song doesn't resemble a Polish song. Revealing mistakes: When Goeth attempts to shoot the Rabbi for producing too few hinges, his semi-automatic pistol fails to fire. In order to re-cock the pistol, he racks the slide (pulls back the slide) several times. When the gun still fails to fire, he tries the same thing with a second semi-automatic pistol. Each time the slide is pulled back, we should see an unfired round being ejected from the gun, but this does not happen. CHAR: (German version only) When Oskar Schindler and Goeth argue about the disposition of Helen Hirsch, we hear Goeth pronouncing the name of Auschwitz incorrectly, he says "Aus-schwitz". This error can be noticed at times in German public as people indeed seem to confuse the name of Auschwitz (which is German for the Polish town name Oswiecim) with "Ausschwitz" (where "ausschwitzen" actually means "to exude"). Fact errors: Amon Goeth was arrested by the Gestapo for theft of Jewish property in November 1944, before the list was made, so all scenes showing him involved thereafter are historically inaccurate. Revealing mistakes: When the doctor goes into his secret stash of fine liquors, there seems to be a ray of light inside. How is that possible since it must be inside a wall? CHAR: When Oskar Schindler takes his meal he uses his fork with the right hand and his knife with the left. Not being left-handed this would be a very unusual thing for a German man to do. DATE: In the 1940s, almost all European women did not shave any of their armpits, legs, or pubic areas, especially work or death camp women who were not allowed even the basics. All but one of the women in the film are trimmed and groomed. Revealing mistakes: When Schindler is getting dressed to go to the night club at the beginning of the film he pours a clear liquid into his glass on the table next to the radio and lamp from a Hennessy VSOP Cognac bottle. Hennessy VSOP Cognac has a dark, amber color and wouldn't be clear for any reason. |
Quotes
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Amon Goeth: They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm? Amon Goeth: The truth, Helen, is always the right answer. Itzhak Stern: How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight? Oskar Schindler: Too many. Itzhak Stern: For every one you smoke, I smoke half. Amon Goeth: This is very cruel, Oskar. You're giving them hope. You shouldn't do that. *That's* cruel! Itzhak Stern: This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf. Oskar Schindler: Stern, if this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy. Amon Goeth: Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history. Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan. Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer! Hujar: Jawohl? Amon Goeth: Shoot her. Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job! Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine. Oskar Schindler: Look, All you have to do is tell me what it's worth to you. What's a person worth to you? Amon Goeth: No, no, no, No. What's one worth to you! Amon Goeth: I would like so much to reach out to you and touch you in your loneliness. What would it be like, I wonder? What would be wrong with that? I realize that you are not a person in the strictest sense of the word, but, um, maybe you're right about that too. Maybe what's wrong, it's not us, it's this... I mean, when they compare you to vermin, to rodents and to lice. I just, uh, you make a good point. You make a very good point. Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? "Hath not a Jew eyes?" I feel for you Helen. [leaning forward to kiss her] No, I don't think so. You Jewish bitch, you nearly talked me into it, didn't you? Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more. Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them. Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just... Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did. Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough! Itzhak Stern: You did so much. [Schindler looks at his car] Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people. [removing Nazi pin from lapel] Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. [sobbing] Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't! Itzhak Stern: Let me understand. They put up all the money. I do all the work. What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do? Oskar Schindler: I'd make sure it's known the company's in business. I'd see that it had a certain panache. That's what I'm good at. Not the work, not the work... the presentation. Amon Goeth: You want these people? Oskar Schindler: These people. My people. I want my people. Amon Goeth: Who are you? Moses? Helen Hirsch: My first day here, he beat me because I threw out the bones from dinner. He came down at midnight and asked for them. And I asked him, I don't know how, I could never ask him now, I said, "Why are you beating me?" He said, "The reason I beat you now is because you ask why I beat you." Oskar Schindler: I am sorry for your troubles, Helen. Helen Hirsch: I have accepted them. Oskar Schindler: Accepted them? Helen Hirsch: One day, he will shoot me. Oskar Schindler: No, he won't shoot you. Helen Hirsch: He will. I see things. We were on the roof on Monday, young Lisiek and I and we saw the Herr Kommandant come out of the house on the patio right there below us and he drew his gun and shot a woman who was passing by. Just a woman with a bundle, just shot her through the throat. She was just a woman on her way somewhere, she was no faster or slower or fatter or thinner than anyone else and I couldn't guess what had she done. The more you see of the Herr Kommandant the more you see there are no set rules you can live by, you cannot say to yourself, "If I follow these rules, I will be safe." Oskar Schindler: He won't shoot you because he enjoys you too much. He enjoys you so much he won't even let you wear the star. He doesn't want anyone to know it's a Jew he's enjoying. He shot the woman from the steps because she meant nothing to him. She was just one of a series neither offending him or pleasing him. [Touching his reflection in a mirror] Amon Goeth: I pardon you. Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. Amon Goeth: You think that's power? Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go. Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk. Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power. Amon Goeth: One of you is a very lucky girl. There is an opening for a job away from all this back-breaking work, in my new villa. Umm, which of you has domestic experience? Ja, on second thought, I don't really want someone else's maid. All those annoying habits I'd have to undo. Oskar Schindler: I've been speaking to Goeth. Itzhak Stern: I know the destination. These are the evacuation orders, I'm to help arrange the shipments, put myself on the last train. Oskar Schindler: That's not what I was going to say. I made Goeth promise to put in a good word for you. Nothing bad is going to happen to you there, you'll receive special treatment. Itzhak Stern: The directives coming in from Berlin talk about "special treatment" more and more often. I'd like to think that's not what you mean. Oskar Schindler: Preferential treatment. All right? Do we have to create a new language? Itzhak Stern: I think so. Oskar Schindler: I go to work the other day. Nobody's there. Nobody tells me about this, I have to find out. I have to go in... everybody's gone. Amon Goeth: No... no. They're not gone. They're here. Oskar Schindler: They're MINE! Every day that goes by I'm losing money, every worker that is shot cost's me money, I have to find somebody else, I have to train them. Amon Goeth: Don't be making so much money, none of this is going to matter. Oskar Schindler: It's bad business. [Oskar Schindler has been arrested for kissing a Jewish girl] Julian Scherner: We give you a Jewish girl at five marks a day, Oskar. You should kiss us, not them. God forbid you ever get a real taste for Jewish skirt, there's no future in it. They don't have a future. That's not just good old fashioned Jew hating talk. It's policy now. Itzhak Stern: By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew. Oskar Schindler: Well, I'm a German, so there we are. Itzhak Stern: It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." [to Stern, upon closing the factory deal] Oskar Schindler: My father was fond of saying you need three things in life - a good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant. The first two, I've never had much use for. [Addressing his workers at the end of the war] Oskar Schindler: The unconditional surrender of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow you'll begin the process of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases... you won't find them. After six long years of murder, victims are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me. Thank yourselves. Thank your fearless Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I am a member of the Nazi Party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a profiteer of slave labor. I am... a criminal. At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be hunted. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight, after which time - and I hope you'll forgive me - I have to flee. [He addresses the factory's SS guards] I know you have received orders from our commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to dispose of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are; they're all here. This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of murderers. [the guards gradually exit; he addresses the workers again] In memory of the countless victims among your people, I ask us to observe three minutes of silence. [Goethe admires Schindler's his suit] Amon Goeth: It has a nice sheen to it. What is it, silk? Oskar Schindler: Of course! I'd say I'd get you one but the man who made it's probably dead. Oskar Schindler: They won't soon forget the name "Oskar Schindler" around here. "Oskar Schindler," they'll say, "everybody remembers him. He did something extraordinary. He did what no one else did. He came with nothing, a suitcase, and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. And left with a steamer trunk, two steamer trunks, of money. All the riches of the world." [first lines] [a Hebrew prayer is chanted, followed by a flashback to 1940s Poland] Krakow registrar: Name? Amon Goeth: Oskar, there's a clerical error here at the bottom of the last page. Oskar Schindler: No, there's one more name I want to put there. I'll never find a maid as well trained as her at Brinnlitz. They are all country girls. Amon Goeth: [referring to Helen] No. No. Oskar Schindler: One hand of 21. If you win, I pay you 7400 Reichmarks. Hit a natural and I make it 14800. If I win, the girl goes on my list. Amon Goeth: I can't wager Helen in a card game. Oskar Schindler: Why not? Amon Goeth: Wouldn't be right. Oskar Schindler: She's going to Auschwitz on Number Two anyway. What difference does it make? Amon Goeth: She's not going to Auschwitz. I'd never do that to her. No, I want her to come back to Vienna with me. I want her to come to work for me there. I want to grow old with her. Oskar Schindler: Are you mad? Amon, you can't take her to Vienna with you. Amon Goeth: No, of course I can't. That's what I'd like to do. What I can do, if I'm any sort of a man is the next most merciful thing. I should take her into the woods and shoot her painlessly in the back of the head. Amon Goeth: What was it you said for a natural 21? Was it 14800? [last title card] Title card: There are fewer than 4000 Jews left alive in Poland today. There are more than 6000 descendants of the Schindler Jews. Amon Goeth: Scherner told me something else about you. Oskar Schindler: Yeah, what's that? Amon Goeth: That you know the meaning of the word 'gratitude.' That it's not some vague thing with you like it is with others. You want to stay where you are. You've got things going on the side, things are good. You don't want anybody telling you what to do. I can understand all that. You know, I know you... What you want is your own sub-camp. Do you have any idea what's involved? The paperwork alone? Forget you've got to build the fucking thing, getting the fucking permits is enough to drive you crazy. Then the engineers show up. They stand around, they argue about drainage, foundations, codes, exact specifications, parallel fences four kilometers long, six thousand kilograms of electrified fences... I'm telling you, you'll want to shoot somebody. I've been through it, you know, I know. Oskar Schindler: Well, you know, you've been through it. You could make things easier for me. I'd be grateful. Oskar Schindler: What are you doing? These are mine. These are my workers. They should be on my train. They're skilled ammunition workers. They're essential. Essential girls! [shows the guard Danka Dresners hand] Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimeter shell casing? You tell me. You tell me! Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did. [watching the incineration of Jews' bodies outside Krakow] Amon Goeth: Can you believe this? As if I don't have enough to do, they come up with this? I have to find every rag buried up here and burn it. The party's over, Oskar. They're closing us down, sending everybody to Auschwitz. Oskar Schindler: When? Amon Goeth: I don't know. As soon as I can arrange the shipments, maybe thirty, forty days. That ought to be fun. [the morning after Schindler leaves Brinnlitz, a Russian officer finds the workers] Russian officer: You have been liberated by the Soviet army! Itzhak Stern: Have you been in Poland? Russian officer: I just came from Poland. Itzhak Stern: Are there any Jews left? Michael Lemper: Where should we go? Russian officer: Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you. Chaim Nowak: We could use some food. Russian officer: Isn't that a town over there? [Stern brings a report to Schindler at lunchtime] Oskar Schindler: I could try to read this, or I could eat my lunch while it's still hot. We're doing well? Itzhak Stern: Yes. Oskar Schindler: Better this month than last? Itzhak Stern: Yes. Oskar Schindler: Any reason to think next month will be worse? Itzhak Stern: The war could end. [after Schindler pulls him off a train bound for the work camps] Itzhak Stern: Somehow I left my work card at home. I tried to explain to them that it was a mistake, but... I'm sorry. It was stupid! Oskar Schindler: What if I got here five minutes later? Then where would I be? Mr. Lowenstein: I am an essential worker. First S.S. Guard: Essential worker! Mr. Lowenstein: Yes! I work for Oskar Schindler. First S.S. Guard: Essential worker for Oskar Schindler. Mr. Lowenstein: Yes! Second S.S. Guard: A one-armed Jew. Twice as useless. Oskar Schindler: [to Emilie Schindler] No doorman or Maitre d' will ever mistake you again. I promise. [it's a scorching hot day and the Jews are packed into the cattle cars] Oskar Schindler: What do you say we get your fire hoses out here and hose down the cars? Indulge me. Amon Goeth: Hujar. Albert Hujar: Yes sir? Amon Goeth: Bring the fire hoses. Albert Hujar: Where's the fire? [Schindler and Goeth laugh] Oskar Schindler: [Schindler and Stern are writing the list] How many? Itzhak Stern: 400, 450. Oskar Schindler: More. More. Oskar Schindler: How are you doing Rabbi? Rabbi Menasha Lewartow: Good Herr Direktor. Oskar Schindler: The sun is going down. Rabbi Menasha Lewartow: Yes it is. Oskar Schindler: What day is it? Friday? It is Friday, isn't it? Rabbi Menasha Lewartow: Is it? Oskar Schindler: What's the matter with you? You should be preparing for the Sabbath, shouldn't you. I've got some wine in my office. Come. Wilhelm Kunde: [Goeth is being driven round the Ghetto in an open top car] This street divides the ghetto just about in half. On the right, ghetto A, civil employees, industrial workers and so on. On the left, ghetto B, surplus labor, the elderly and infirm, mostly, which is where you will want to start. Any questions? Amon Goeth: Ja. Why is the top down? I'm fucking freezing. [the Ghetto is being "cleared out", with machine gun fire all around, two SS Guards stop and listen to a fellow Guard playing the piano] First S.S. Guard: Was ist das? Ist das Bach? Second S.S. Guard: Nein. First S.S. Guard: Ist das Bach? Second S.S. Guard: Nein. Mozart. First S.S. Guard: Mozart? Second S.S. Guard: Ja. S.S. Guard: Occupation? Moses: I am a writer, I play the flute. Itzhak Stern: But Moses is also a skilled metal worker, he can make pots, he can make tanks, he can make whatever Mr Schindler asks. Chaim Nowak: Not essential? I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word. I teach history and literature, since when it's not essential? Itzhak Stern: I'm sorry, Herr Direktor, you're running very late. Here, this is for the Obersturmbahnführer and this is for his niece, it's her birthday, Greta. Greta as in Garbo. Oskar Schindler: By the way, don't *ever* do that to me again. Didn't you notice that man only had one arm? Itzhak Stern: Did he. Oskar Schindler: What's his use? [gets into his car] Itzhak Stern: Very useful. Oskar Schindler: [shouts from car window] How? Itzhak Stern: [shouts back] Very useful! Success! Reiter: [about to be shot] It will take more than that. S.S. Guard: I'm sure you're right. [shoots her] [last lines] Amon Goeth: [about to be hanged] Heil Hitler. Oskar Schindler: [addressing two unco-operative Nazi officers at the train station] Gentlemen, thank you very much. I think I can guarantee you- you'll both be in Southern Russia before the end of the month. Good day. Oskar Schindler: Why do you drink that motor oil? I send you good stuff all the time. Oskar Schindler: You'd leave a lady alone at a table in a place like this? [to Agnieska] Sweetheart, you're the picture of loneliness. Wilhelm Kunde: That's what they do. They weather the storm. But this storm is different, this storm is the SS. Oskar Schindler: So the man can turn out a hinge in less than a minute, why the long story? Emilie Schindler: I will only stay with you only if you promise, nobody will ever mistake anyone but me for Mrs. Oscar Schindler. Emilie Schindler: [Next shot she is going away on a train] Good-bye! Oskar Schindler: Good-bye! Oskar Schindler: In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing. Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it because you can't create this thing. And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure. Emilie Schindler: Luck? [Schindler kisses his wife's hand and smiles] Oskar Schindler: War. Itzhak Stern: The standard SS rate for skilled Jewish workers is seven marks a day, five for unskilled and women. This is what you pay to the Reich Economic Office. The Jews themselves receive nothing. Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more. Are you listening? Oskar Schindler: What was that about the SS? The rate? The what? Itzhak Stern: The Jewish worker's salary - you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker. He gets nothing. Oskar Schindler: But it's less. It's less than what I would pay to a Pole. Itzhak Stern: It's less. Oskar Schindler: That's the point I'm trying to make. Poles cost more. Why should I hire Poles? Amon Goeth: [after shooting Rieter in the head after she points out the instability of the barracks foundation] Tear it down. Rebuild it like she said. [Looks at an SS officer] We're not going to have arguments with these people. |
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