I was 13 years old. My parents took me to the theatre to watch it as WW2 and the Holocaust was apart of my school exams. From start to finish no one in the theatre moved. When the credits rolled, no one moved, no one said a word. We all sat there in silence until the lights went on. I’ve never experienced anything like it ever again. The movie is a solid piece of movie history and reminder of a terrible moment in human history.
@-Swamp_Donkey- Can't even imagine,the misery, trauma and hell those people had to endure. Although l was born in 1960,since l can remember,this period in history is single-handedly one of the worst and disturbing things that happen. A tragedy that l find impossible to comprehend or forget.
@@HansRichter-lh9gt to some extent, we judge this because it is reported. The starvation, purges, imprisonment, and deaths in Communist Russia, Communist China, and Communist Cambodia were as bad just reported as much. Our media judges Nazi as evil (it is) but neither reports nor vilifies Communism. IMHO.
That explains (at least to me) why Poland has more backbone than most of Europe and the World has for tolerating Russian Nazism in Ukraine. Thank you. 🫡
Not gonna lie....I saw this movie for the first time when I was 11 years old, living in Japan, because my father was stationed there. I saw a warning about violence and nudity, and was "all in".....What followed was two hours of history....It changed my life...This movie should be required viewing....
I remember forging my parents signatures on the permission slip to see this for history class, and came away stunned. Schools didn't cover the Holocaust in any way like this film and it brought a gritty realism to what we only got in a couple pages in books. There was a huge uproar at the school after some kids came home completely traumatized, and I'm glad to this day that the teachers stood their ground and continued showing this in the years after as part of their class.
And as harrowing as it is, it doesn't show a lot of the more horrifying atrocities that were committed. Spielberg himself said that there were some things he just couldn't film (in particular the things done to babies/children). Even Come and See, which is an even more realistic portrayal of the horrors, only scratches the surface.
@@Monoville Come And See was going to have way worse stuff in it but they said if they film what they had planned nobody would see it, they wouldn't make it through, what we got was actually a watered down, censored version.
I remember talking to my niece (15 at the time) about school and her classes. When I found out that they covered WWII in less than 2 pages and the Holocaust in less than a paragraph I was shocked I asked her, if she wanted to learn more if her Mom approved. We watched both Scheindlers List and The Pianist read books together. And even had the opportunity to go see a survivor of Auschwitz give a speech. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to bond with and teach a younger generation.
Good for you. Not a week goes by I don't think of the film. I saw it with a bunch of friends after work, and going in we were all laughing and joking. Leaving, we had all the merriment of children at their parents funeral.
I was in high school in the 70's and we were shown actual film of the concentration camps. What the Allies witnessed when they discovered them and the actual cleanup and burial of corpses the SS guards were forced to do. Corpses were bulldozed into mass graves, some lampshades made of human skin, and decomposing bodies stacked like firewood. There was no denying what took place and what indoctrinated people were capable of. It sent an indelible message that words alone could not convey. Nowadays the images are blurred or cut out entirely so as not to offend anyone. One day the graphic nature will be forgotten and people won't fully appreciate the widespread cruelty and absolute lack of compassion that humans can assume.
When the descendants of the people saved by Schindler’s list file past in colour, I just become a basket case. What a brilliant way to reinforce the importance and impact of that list in real life.
@@youngbess1 They are the the real survivors accompanied by the actors that portrayed them as @sarahhumphreys3980 said. If you look closely at their faces you will recognize them from the film, especially the child that had to hide in the toilet to avoid being hauled off.
Schindler's List is still a masterpiece. I cannot believe that this movie turns 30 this year. One of the greatest films EVER made even though it is a very dark, somber and heartbreaking film.
When my now-wife and I saw it in the theater at an afternoon showing, we were so energized and lifted by the story we went back and saw it again that evening. And it was a good thing we did because we realized that the film had broken in the projector where the last splice between black and white and color stock was and they had brought up the house lights like the film was over; the splice was fixed in the evening showing.
@@toddgaak422 Exceptionally poor choice of words on my part (will edit; thanks for pointing it out) but you get my meaning. We were astonished by what Schindler was able to accomplish in the face - *right in the face* - of such a brutal and horrible regime. And the audacity and bravery of Stern, Pfefferberg, and so many others.
It was the greatest and at the same time the most painful movie to watch. The actors were traumatized during just filming it. I cannot even imagine the pain of the poor people who survived and died in real life. I spent time with famlies of survivors growing up in the 70s and the pain was openly talked about but never taught to me in school except for the Diary of Anne Frank. I did not know how awful it was. Thank you to all who worked so hard to share their stories and never forget.
@@redwater4778 Schindler existed, the people he saved, what happened on the ghettos and camps including the commadant shooting people from his house. What the heck are you talking about? You want a documentary? Watch one. They are great also. The novel was based on actual events. What part of that don't you understand? Schindler was a little shadier than represented and red dress thing was made up. But most it matches the testimony of survivors. Check it out I actually watched the interviews from survivors of events the book was based on. I really am gobsmacked about where you are coming from.
As an Arabian of heritage myself, it brings me a great deal of shame and disgrace how Arab nations forbid this movie out of sheer political spite. This movie is bigger than that, it is a story to compel all humans to find compassion towards one another in the darkest of moments for the purest of hearts. We must always put life before religion, ethnical bias or any political affairs that are designed to tear us apart.
I took a class on Nazi Germany which required a great deal of reading, writing and thinking about this terrible time in history. It went on for a full semester, and by the end, I felt traumatized in a way no other class had ever done to me. The class delved deeply into the whole situation and is forever etched into my mind and psyche. I am glad I took the class, since it brought me up close to the time, but at the end, I remember coming home, sitting at my table, and sobbing uncontrollably for a time, as if my heart had broken into a million pieces, which it had done. The impact of this class was stronger than any I ever took and I will never forget it. Schindler's List ranks with the same weight on my heart as this class, even though it did not go on as long as the class, and bravo to those people who can, and are willing to bring this dark time into the light for us all to remember.
I know right it’s very insane stuff and to think there’s still genocide going on to this day. And other Genocides that have been committed like Japan in World War II and beyond before. And then America with the Native Americans and the colonist. Colonialism/ imperialism. A lot of history is destroyed. Luckily, some people preserve some of it. I didn’t even know about the crazy, intense civilizations. There was of Native Americans a whole more advanced, civilization, never even heard of it, buried underground and destroyed. . Until college. And that was in archaeology.
@@Puppy_Puppington I agree. Presently, we have Palestine, and the it is sad that the West is brainwashed to accept anything that Israel does as acceptable. It is not difficult to find out the truth, however, and with the internet available, there is no excuse for ignoring genocide. I urge anyone reading this to please, look for the truth, and not just accept everything that you hear on the evening news. We need a miracle, now, to stop this genocide and save what is left of the people of Gaza. Thank you for reading.
I saw the film in the theater when it first came out, I was about 30. I remember being haunted by it for days, no movie before it had done the same. Nor since. The barbarity, the banality of evil, "it's policy now". This film does indeed bear witness to murder, and it's so important to continue to do so.
I am from Minnesota. I watched it at the mall of America and the auditorium was filled. There was a group of about 4-5 people that were disruptive& saying all kinds of antisemitic remarks and a couple of them left and didn’t come back in. At the end of the movie, when people were exiting, there were several of the group that had came in making those remarks that left with a tear in their eye, and seemed remorseful of their actions. That brought me to tears as I seen it, make a change in people.
When I visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, two items were on my mind, one conscious and one unconscious. I consciously looked for the Emmanuel Ringlebaum diaries, but never did find them. As I made my way through the museum I noticed a glass case at a distance. In it were what appeared to be pages from a book. I edged closer (the museum was crowded with school children) I saw that they were typewritten pages. In an instant, I realized what I was seeing. I reached the glass case and, in spite of the rules, I had to put my hand on the glass for it was Schindler's List. I stood there crying my eyes out, sobbing uncontrollably. I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned to see a very pretty high school girl and she handed me a tissue. I will never, ever forget that moment. Not ever. I will return to Yad Vashem and I will find the diaries, but will read the transcript first. Schindler's List is one of the most important films ever made. I'll never say it should be required viewing (that's up to the individual), but I cannot recommend it highly enough. As for the musical score it is, in my opinion, John Williams' greatest work. Everyone remembers Star Wars, but this masterpiece relegates all Williams' other works to second-tier status. It is pure auditory genius that wraps itself around the visual impact and brutality of the film.
The Academy is dumb. Ralph's performance in this movie was terrifying, accurate and brilliant on so many levels. He should have won the Oscar plain and simple.
@@todddavis4586 Are you literally just going through comments trying to trigger people with holocaust denial? Trolls used to be a lot smarter, this world is doomed 🤦♂️
@@moshco23 Only around 4million of these lying frauds in Europe at the time. More than 4m claimed reparations after the war. Go figure it. It ain't rocket science. There was never a plan to literally do away with these perpetual liars. There was definitely a plan to literally remove them from Europe. Most of them were communist and sexual degenerates.
Upon the movie's release, I attended a showing in which the theater was packed, When the final credits rolled, I witnessed something I have never ever seen in a theater. The atmosphere was solemn as people sat quietly, then exited slowly without anyone saying a word, with the exception of soft crying and others wiping tears.
I had that same experience at the first showing of the movie Platoon. After the end credits rolled everyone was still in their seats and the theater was quiet. Once people left, they gathered in the theater lobby and stood around and talked. I know there were more than a few Veterans there because there was some crying and hugging going on.
I remember watching it in the theatre with my Grandmother. I felt like a monster because I wasn't crying like most were. (I still found it extremely somber) Then when the end came where Schindler is bashing himself for being greedy and not saving just one more life, the floodgates opened for me. (It still does to this day) For me the girl in the red coat, I noticed right away and asked my Grandmother "This is a black and white movie, right?" My Grandmother said "Yea." I said "That girl is wearing a red coat" My Grandmother responded "Yea......wow." I think we both knew that we'd see that little girl later in the movie no longer alive. Though I'm loathe to bring up another monster, it reminded me of Stalin's comment: "A million dead is a statistic, one dead is a tragedy"
I have a strong connection with this movie because when I was in elementary school, one of my teachers was an actual Holocaust survivor and she had the tattoos on her arms, but some ignorant classmates thought that it was cool, I just saw them and knew what they meant… Such a horrific time in history
As someone who suffers chronic depression lemme tell ya. No matter what happens, no matter how happy I am. There's a little demon on the corner of my psyche whispering "fuck you you're gonna die. Entropy is the only God." even if you make millions of people happy. That doesn't go away.
Of course he made other people happy. He frantically made people happy. Manically tried to make people happy. Because why would he want anyone else to feel the way he did?
He was only sad because he had a chronic disease causing his brain to misfire. It’s called lewey body dementia and it can cause all kinds of problems. Robin normally was a very happy to lucky person. This was an extremely unlikely event that happened with him
I actually took the girl in red much differently. To me it showed the individuality of the victims. When they are in a group, they lose some of their humanity. To be able to focus on one individual, you really saw her story, her struggle. To be able to focus on one, you become emotionally invested her outcome. You root for this one girl while hundreds of others are being slaughtered. I think it's emotionally easier to digest the carnage when focusing on this sweet, innocent girl and seeing things from her perspective. Then when you see her dead body with all others, you then can feel how that story played out exponentially with hundreds of little girls just like her. The weight of that is so emotional and draws you into the movie and makes your heart ache for the millions of people that suffered the same fate as she did. It's so heavy but heavy with a purpose. Additionally I didn't think the red of her coat meant anything other than being able to pick her out in a crowd, though I don't think her wearing blood red was by accident.
I believe this is why, we are often more affected by a trauma we witness happening to one person, than to a large group who each is suffering. We cannot grasp the group's suffering, but we can get in there and empathize with one person's pain.
When I saw the film in the theater the first time, at first the color of the coat didn't register with me. The gag in my view was to show us Schindler noticing her as she moved among the carnage. And then Schindler - and we - notice her again in the pile. That would not have worked in black and white.
The little girl in the red coat to me represented the innocent. She casually walked through the chaos that was going on around her, people being pushed out of their homes, people being shot, and people who were forced onto the trains going to their deaths. She walked through all of it and went to go hide. She held your gaze as if she could have been your own daughter. When we see her in a wheel barrow it’s like they stripped that hope away and you’re left thinking “those murderers and bastards. Why’d they have to kill her?”
This masterpiece should top anyone’s list of greatest film of all time. There are times when I think of this movie and tears flow. No other flick ever has evoked this type of reaction. It stays with you no matter how many years pass. Brilliant, fantastic. Really no words to describe it
I watched this movie for the first time like 7 years ago late at night. I was so shaken by the entire thing. It is probably still my favorite film of all time, no other movie has quite captured the same sense of terror, hope and sadness as this one
That's how I feel too! The end where the survivors of the list are walking toward the camera gets me every time I have watched it. I had seen it several times when I brought it up to my neighbors home. He had the belief that the Holocaust was exaggerated. So I wanted him to watch this film. I told him to make sure there was a box of tissues because I knew he would need them. When that last seen occurred he broke down (he was already crying) he started crying so hard he was having troubles breathing but he was saying over and over how wrong he was and he recognized the horror these people had gone through. Writing this comment has me crying remembering my friends reaction. A few years later he and his father went to the Volga region of Russia (his grandfather and grand uncles came from that region) but they went to Auschwitz before returning to the states and he said that trip was the most emotion and moving part of his trip.
And yet some Constitutional fetishists think that Neo NotSees (this algorithm is so unpredictable) should enjoy Constitutional Freedoms of Speech, Assembly and Association. Germany's Constitution is far better. It defines National Socialist symbols, gestures and propaganda as UNCONSTITUTIONAL. (The band KISS has to change it's SS to ZZ for CDs and band merchandise exported to Germany...and two of KISS are Jewish.)
It's not just the Jews who have the duty to make sure that no one ever forgets the Holocaust, it's also those of us who have friends that survived the holocaust and parents who liberated the nazi death camps
There is a survivor buried in a small cemetery in New Zealand. He lost his wife and 5 children in a camp. He met his 2nd wife in a displaced persons camp and they had two children before coming here, His brother escaped before the War and Alec got here not long before Harry and Harry's 2 daughters died. I show everyone I can the graves and tell the stories. It's important and it makes it real.
I'll never forget the first time I watched this movie when it came out. I ran out of the room crying because of how horrifying it was, shaken even more so by the fact it actually happened. I'm even more frightened that there are people who believe even now the number of lives lost during the Holocaust "wasn't enough."
They even cheer those trying to finish it as “freedom fighters” and “resistance” They call the terrorists’ main nest a concentration camp, even though the Jews themselves made it judenrhein just to appease them
This movie just affects you in ways very few can. After watching it, it stays with you forever. Easily Spielberg’s Magnus opus and Liam Neeson’s best performance, and obviously Ralph Fiennes is absolutely sensational as Amon Goeth. Who is one of the most intimidating and scary characters I have ever seen in a movie. His presence, malevolence and cruelty are incredibly impactful.
@metsfan92286 I can only imagine how impactful this film was for a Jewish person watching. I agree that despite its dark themes and psychologically frightening scenes, it is vital to watch it. We can never allow what transpired in Germany in the 1930s to ever happen again. Which is why it’s of paramount importance that films like this and the history of the atrocities committed during WW2 should be taught rigorously. People don’t quite realize how much the First and Second World War impacted the world and even things like the geographical lay-out of Europe and the Middle East. It may have ended in 1945, but it was succeeded by the Cold War that pervaded society and public paranoia for decades to come.
I am Jewish, married outside my religion. We have twin sons who we sat down with to watch this film so as they had an understanding of were I am coming from in these matter as beliefs. Rocked them to the core that this really happened.
@@youngbess1I am not Jewish. But my husband is. I, like some others, saw this movie in school, when I was about 16, about 3 years after it came out (so around 1996). It hit me like a mack truck, even then. When I watched it again years later, after I'd married my husband, it hit me like another mack truck, in a whole new, even more powerful way. Because it wouldn't have just been my husband who was taken. It would've been me, too, for marrying a Jewish man. It would've been any kids we have, for simply being born with a Jewish father. It just she'd a whole new light on it, made me see it from a whole new perspective, you know? I almost felt it personally-at least, as much as someone who wasn't there, can. I always knew that I'd want any kids my husband and I had, to watch this film, when they were old enough, and mature enough. My son and I read Maus together, a few years ago, when he was around 13. He's 15 now, and tonight he, his father and I, all sat down and watched Schindler's List together, for the first time. I think it really made an impact on him. He was quiet and focused on the movie, and never picked up his phone (lol) the whole time. Though we did talk a little, about certain scenes, while it was playing. He went right to his room after, to play video games with his friends, but I think he probably needs some lighthearted distraction after the levity of the heavy film. He did say he thought it was a really good film, a really good telling of such a tragic story. And I'm sure we'll talk more about it later, when he's had time to think about it. When it sinks in. I'm always open with him about anything, this very much included, and if ever it's on his mind, and he brings it up, or vice versa, we'll talk about it. I'm so glad I got this opportunity to teach him further, about his heritage, and to honor with remembrance those who suffered, those who died, and those who risked it all, to help them.
I was in Krakow this summer for a wedding, I visited the Plaszow camp, it's a beautiful park today but you can read the signs they put up all around the park describing what took place from 1943 to 1945. I filmed a mini documentary and it was very difficult to narrate knowing what took place there.
@@Quaker-tc8ue my brother in Christ, the movie is based on a book. This is literally a fiction movie. Come on haha. You’re not this addicted to propaganda, are you??
Even though the movie was intentionally made in black and white, it made the film what I like to call "hyper-realism". I own this film but when I first saw it at age 8, I thought it was real. The executions were so brutally realistic, to this day I cry watching this film. To see a tiny fraction of a glimpse of how horrid and diabolical the Holocaust was. Truly horrific yet also a masterpiece. It needed to be filmed so that people don't forget how evil can take over humanity at an instant if you let yourself go numb from the atrocities that man can and have done
A very interesting point, I forget sometimes it is in black and white because of how powerful it is when it shows the horror that happened during that period of time. In does give a sense of realism and almost a documentary type of film. I never wondered how it would of been like in color.
The little girl in the red coat was actual. She was witnessed by Schindler and his companion, walking as if invisible through utter mayhem. She was even identified, I think in the book although I no longer have a copy. She died in the Holocaust. A masterpiece of filmmaking, watchable again and again, if you can stand the subject matter. I remember when it came out, a notice appeared in Santa Monica theaters about the length, with a statement that the theater would break the film in the middle so people could go out to their cars and put more money in the meter.
@@PeterZvg The entire narrative is fiction. Only around 4million of these so called victims in Europe at the time. More than 4m claimed reparations after the war. Go figure it. It ain't rocket science. There was never a plan to literally do away with these people. Remove them from Europe???? You bet. Most of them were communist and sexual degenerates. You can't coexist with them. Look at the United States....totally wrecked by them.....open borders, filth and degeneracy and usary, Federal Reserve Bank of endless debt and worthless money. It's way past time to show them the ocean.....sink or swim.
@lupusdeum3894 that was the girls character name in the fictional book by Thomas Kenally who wrote Schindlers Ark that the movie was based. While There's an anecodote told by a holocaust survivor about a little girl in a red coat murdered after selection, there's zero evidence the incident in the movie occurred. Oscar Schindler wasn't anywhere near the hill at the time the little girl was reportedly killed.
Sorry but this isn't accurate. While There's an anecodote told by a holocaust survivor about a little girl in a red coat murdered after selection, there's zero evidence the incident in the movie occurred. Oscar Schindler wasn't anywhere near the hill at the time the little girl was reportedly killed.
Watched this movie in grade 9 history. I havent seen it since,but it is one of those movies. Once you see it,you cant unsee it. Although my memories are vague after all these years, i do recall scenes,the story and how it made me feel.
I agree. I watched this when I was in high school as my teacher let us view it for our world history class. I cried buckets and until now I can’t bring myself to rewatch it. This movie’s impact is so deep and maybe that’s why I became fond of watching WWII movies. I wanted to learn more how and why it happened. It must have been so terrifying to be in that situation and I truly hope that humanity will never repeat it ever.
@@blueCC3I’m doubly sure the theaters for the 30th anniversary reissue later this year will be “sardine tins of teens” like how it was for the 25th in 2018.
I watched it as a teenager back in the 90s, maybe 13 or 14 years old. It struck me. We learn a lot about the Holocaust in school in Germany, so of course, I already knew a lot. But having it, not in a documentary, but in this movie was so different. I think, Schindlers List is one of the most important movies of all time. It is a reminder and a warning. The actors were amazing as well as the music. In a lot of schools in Germany, Schindlers List is watched in 9th or 10th grade with the whole class. Yes, it is traumatizing, but in my opinion, as a 15 or 16years old, it is time to watch it and realize how fragile our society is and how easy it is to start hating someone for being different just because someone tells you "they are the reason for your problems".
I rented the video. It took four attempts to complete the film….it was that emotional. I say this as an adult, father, and former Army Infantry Officer in Germany in the 1980’s. Even more intense than the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
I worked on Shindler's List with Stevie Spielberg in late summer of 1972. He knew about the Jewish tombstones as pavements, but upside down and paved over. List was always Steven's ultimate achievement.
@@jonathanwilliams1065 The events of Schindler's List took place in WWII. Stevie and I worked for Ann Richards in Dallas in the summer of 1972. So Steve kept the story in that Indiana Jones notebook with the elastic snap strap (used as a prop for that film). So, yeah, List took a very long time to get made. Long intervals were common for stories to become movies, lots of set up, financing, etc., I guess.
One of the finest presentations I have ever seen. I did lose a distant relative in the Holocaust and this movie still has the power to conjure up my emotions on the subject.
Add "son of saul" and "come and see" to that list ... while SL and the pianist are emotionally taxing I had to pause the first movie twice and the second made me feel physically sick at one point.
The pianist is my favourite movie. I’m going to rewatch SL now that I’m older. I heard so much about the war as a little kid and there were survivors in my apartment building, heaps,of them .
There are movies, and then there are masterpieces. The most sorrowful thing about this film is that it actually happened. Everyone says the world is so much better now, but is it really? We must all strive for kindness and compassion in our every day lives.
Movies that educate his about the horrors in history are both horrible and necessary. Horrible in that they relive the worst in our lack of humanity and necessary because we have to learn from history or we will relive it. Sadly, we are reliving some of the elements of the Nazis today.
Indeed Jan. The same horrors are being replayed. It is just the names and location have changed. What's the answer? I guess regimes and other diseases should never be allowed to outgrow their pot! Wishing you and yours peace from a French forest. 🌞🇬🇧
I agree with you, the Bach scene in the liquidation of the ghetto is also my favorite, largely because I was a sophomore piano major and I had just spent several months working on that English Suite.
Saw this movie when it first came out. Theater was packed. I sat next to an older lady and her husband. At a certain point she grabbed my arm and started digging her fingers into it. So emotional, I had marks on my arm for days after.
My dad told me to watch it before going on a school trip to Poland to and the near by camps when I was 15, we sat and watched it together. It is such a powerful film, we both cried. to call it one of my favourites wouldn't be right but it is a meaningful and well done films I think have ever been made. it made my trip to Poland and the camps not "better" but certainly more meaningful. If you are reading this and have not seen it I beg you to watch it. it is not an easy thing to see and it can be difficult to watch at points, However, I think it is so important to understand what happened During that time. Not only to know what happened but to feel it like the film makes you feel it.
You know a film is great when a re-enactment brings you to tears. This movie gives people "the feels", but it's something I could never watch again, just like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
I accidentally saw the ending of Pajamas again recently. Along with the horrific truths being shown, how could the mom be married to such a cruel and sick man?
@@lindafeldman8587 The ending of Pajamas and Vera's emotional state of sadness and bawling always guarantees me to be crying my eyes out. Got that way watching Passion of the Christ and Million Dollar Baby as well. So powerful when a movie actually brings one to such tears.
I enjoyed this - the movie is beyond words and, I have to say, if the movie doesn't bring people to tears, the theme will. It does me every time I hear it.
I was simply blown away by this movie. When Steven Spielberg came up at the end, I was shocked. It was like Zane Gray had turned around and written Hamlet. Taking nothing away from Spielberg's other movies, but they are schlock, this is a masterpiece.
The little girl in red could also be viewed as a reference to the autobiographical novel "Night" by Elie Wisel. the last time the author saw his little sister she was wearing a little red coat.
Watched this with my Thai fiance while living in Bangkok. She's a university graduate with a bachelor's degree, however, schools in E. Asia do not teach world history at all. Her knowledge of WW2 was that the US fought the Japanese, with absolutely no knowledge of the European War, Hitler, the Nazis or the holocaust. Most Buddhists have never even heard of the Jewish faith, consequently have no knowledge of antisemitism throughout history. She was very shocked by what she was seeing and could not understand why people, who to her eyes were exactly the same as each other, were doing these things to others. I quite literally had to go all the way back to the beginning explaining the differences between the Christian and Jewish faiths, antisemitism over centuries and the attitudes that lead to this nightmare happening. Believe me when I say that the so called differences between Christians and Jews are even more ridiculous when you're trying to explain them out loud. In doing all of that explaining, I realized that reasons for the Holocaust and the justifications given for it are even worse then I thought they were while learning them as a boy, and they were pretty terrible then as well. It really does change your view of it through trying to tell the story yourself. And yes, I was there when the chicken restaurant was using a stylized picture of Hitler as their logo, but that proves my point about a complete lack of world history not being taught in every level of education though university. They had absolutely no idea who Hitler was and what his monstrous crimes were, it was just a picture of a goofy looking westerner that they liked.
It’s not about the differences between Christianity and Judaism Hitler after all wanted to get rid of Christianity, but though other means, including the creation of “positive Christianity” which worshiped Hitler
The little girl in the red coat turned out to be an actual child who was smuggled out of the ghetto and survived. When she saw the film, she realized it was depicting her, Roma Ligocka . She wrote a memoir entitled “The Girl in the Red Coat”. It is an incredible story!
Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria saved nearly 50 000. When Germany ordered Bulgaria to surrender its 50,000 Jews during World War II, the Bulgarian people refused, saving nearly all of them from deportation and death. No movie was ever made about that.
31) Although Josef Leipold, the commandant of Schindlers Brinnlitz camp, is shown as a passive figure in the movie he was so brutal at previous camps that he was executed in 1949 for war crimes.
This video isn’t about the topic of the film though, is it? I think when the video is meta and the tone of voice is on brand, it’s acceptable to talk like a youtuber.
Brilliant documentary. Well done to "The Why" for posting it. I can see that you put a lot of effort into this documentary and that you did it with respect for both the Holocaust victims and Steven Spielberg. Once again, well done. Sadly in our world today, we still see these atrocities. Mervyn Nel Author.
It couldn't be redone without Neeson Fiennes and Kingsley thats impossible they are such great actors and some of the co stars Neeson should have got an oscar. But we now know how dodgy the oscars committees are.after will smith and the slap spineless and stupid
Liam did not get the recognition he deserved. All eyes were on the show stopping scene with Fiennes. Yet his performance was easy compared to Neeson's. He just had to be a bastard whereas Neeson had had to be more nunaucned.
Really ? I didnt reallly pay much attention to Fiennes's performance except during the weird scene where he is saying a monologue while standing next to the Helen Hirsch character. That was a really great villainous performance. Otherwise, I was mainly paying attention to Neeson and Kingsley.
It's one of those movies where you will cry pretty much all the way through it. But I think Schindler's List is a reminder how thankful we are to be here today. I cannot imagine the horror what those people went through
I didn't cry at all until the very end when I heard 'you have been liberated by the Soviet Army' and the actors walking morphed into the Schindler survivors. I've never been able to see the graveside scene properly through sobbing tears.
I still cannot watch this film without weeping uncontrollably . I'm Spiritual, not Jewish. I'm amazed at how incredibly cruel, careless and oblivious, we as a race truly are. How God allows us to continue on, is mind boggling.
Nicely done. I had always thought (and heard) that the hand laying the flower at the very end was Spielberg. I remember years ago, when Torrents were a thing, I downloaded "Schindler's List," thinking I was downloading the book. What it was, was a scanned copy of the actual list. It blew me away, actually seeing that list, with the tattered edges and yellowed paper. It's a very "right in the middle of the moment" historical document, to think that those names were typed in a time crunch effort to save those lives. It reminded me of another "right in the middle of the moment" document I saw....the original train manifest from the Train that left the Westerbork Transit camp in the Netherlands, on September 3, 1944 to Auschwitz. That was the train Anne Frank and the other 8 from the Annex were on. Passenger number 306...Anneliese Frank, 12.6.29, right below her mother, number 305. The yellowed original passenger list is on display at The Anne Frank house. The birthdate was important, because there was another error (liberal license) in Shchindler's list. When the train is routed to Auschwitz, they arrive at night and many of the small children were on the train (including the little girl with the glasses). The next day, they are evacuated to the new plant location, including the children. Every one of those children would have gone right to the gas chambers...it was camp policy to immediately kill every child under the age of 15, and every person over the age of 55.
Not sure if you ever found out who lay that flower on the grave at the end of the movie, it was actually Liam Neeson that did. Just a tidbit of information.
Spielberg's reply to Williams at 3:05 really reminds me of when Goeth asked Schindler what his suit is made of. And Schinder replied "I would get you one but the man who made it is probably dead." Interesting stuff.
I highly respected Robin Williams as a person and actor/comedian before. But learning about what he did for the people working on the film gave a whole new respect. He was an incredible man, there is no doubt about it
When a film Robin was doing on went ‘on location,’ either he or a production assistant had to go find ‘x’ number of homeless people to work on the film, ‘give them the dignity of a day’s work and a day’s pay.’@@odeleya1768
I'm convinced that the Nazi wife's stark red coat in the Band of Brothers "Why We Fight" is a direct link to the Jewish child in this film dying in the Holocaust. I don't believe there are coincidences in Spielberg's work.
Watch the documentary “The Adolf Eichmann Trial,” and maybe you’ll catch the real life parallel that an actual Israeli prosecutor brings up that will give you other ideas not attributed to Steven Spielberg. A coincidence perhaps? I doubt it.
Schindler feeling that he could've done more in the end made me cry so hard. I was emotionally disturbed and paused the movie for few minutes to process the scene. But then I started crying again while resuming it.
I remember when this came out. My mom and I were leaving the night before to go out of town about 2 hours away for an appointment I had the next morning. We ended up having something happen with our vehicle and didn't want to chance going that far in case something happened on the way. We ended up going to this as it had just opened that day. It was at the mall in town and there were several showings of it and we were one of the last few people to take seats in that particular theater. I was in shock and teared up several times. I had to go to the bathroom and didn't want to leave and possibly miss something. One person did leave and was back real quick. Didn't hear anyone speak during the whole movie. My mom and I would look at each other several times during various scenes in shock. Hit me hard then and has every time I have watched it and always end up with tears flowing. It's at the top of my list of movies because of how well done it was showing the history of what happened during that time.
Ne of my favourite movies. Difficult to watch but essential to understand what is happening even now in the States. But I wish you had mentioned Ben Kingsley specifically as his performance was exquisite of what it must have been like to actually live in that time, under those circumstances. I'm so sorry Netflix took the movie off. I've watched it about 20 times! And now miss it.
This movie is such a piece of history. It is so mesmerizing! The film was directed beautifully and the actors were cast perfectly. I have seen it 3 times, and cry almost all the way through it. It is a project of love.
I saw Thomas Keneally speak on his book “searching for Schindler”. The way pfefferberg hounded him to get the book written and the film made. He always said “an Oscar for Oskar.”
I could never get into this film simply because I’ve read the book so many times and it depicts and describes the conditions in both camps a lot more graphically than the film does (or could). You get a much better sense of the hopelessness of the inmates situation from the book, as well as many events that the film doesn’t show. Strange how the WJC were against filming in Auschwitz as the TV mini series War and Rememberance actually filmed their Auschwitz scenes in the real camp and not in a mock up.
I saw it in Berlin with my German best male friend and then-girlfriend. After movies, we always went for a beer together to talk about them and chat. But this time, we couldn't say a word. My friend just said, "I think we'd better just go home".
A survivor told (not a Schindler survivor) told me if they showed how bad it really was, no one would go to it, because it would be way too difficult and depressing to watch.
That is probably a true statement. Remember the scene when the Nazis were cleaning out the ghetto and they were throwing and emptying luggage over the balconies? Well the truth is they were throwing babies over the balconies and using them as skeet. Spielberg said there was no way that he could have ever filmed a scene like that.
I've said the same thing, just being an avid history fan, what all happened leading up to and then through the final days was horrific and definitely could no have been properly portrayed on scream w/out coming across as grotesque and outlandish. They rode a fine line in making this.
SL is a great movie because of the restraint. Starvation, disease, gas chambers and crematoria are only hinted at. IIRC, the most violent scenes are the Krakow liquidation and the bonfires of bodies. The rest of the film is mostly conversations with a smattering of shootings.
One survivor told me that the people that came families with lots of money, did not last too long. Fact of the matter is, when some leader of a country states that "Jews are responsible for all our problems" and goes in that direction, the country falls into catastrophy. Erdogan and Lukashenko of Turkey and Belarus did not too long ago. The currencies of these countries is a tiny fraction of what it was before they took over. Chavez of Venezuela did it too. Needless to say how that turned out. Schindler settled in Munich after the war. There were Jews that he saved who settled there too and they had a store or a business or some sort. Schindler was living on social welfare at the time. He use to visit the Jews he saved at their business. They would always reach into their cash registers and give him some cash so he could get a good meal and go to a bar afterwards. 14:50 It took three times to hang Goth, because it was botched the first two times. I think what happened was the hangman did deliberately botched it the first two times. Even if things were not going so good they always had cash put away in case he showed up. In a few concentration camps the SS had to take off quick because the Russians were coming. Once one SS guy was held back and the inmates got a hold of him. They put him in the crematorium and baked him just enough so that he would not die and would do it again and again.
There is a Russian film about Sobibor which was one of the first concentration camps. It’s called “sobibor” and about Alexander Pechersky. Not easy to watch. Actor who played Pecherksy was also a director and he said that most movies about Holocaust don’t show reality and he wanted to show it and still beloved that he didn’t show it fully. I met many Holocaust survivors and it always amazed me how much they loved the life and always smiled.
I was 10 when this came out. My mom insisted that i saw it. It left its mark on my life. I can imagine how hard it was to make this movie. Ive been to the holocaust museum in Washington DC a few times. The last time, my wife wanted to go. I told her that is has to be at the end of our trip, just because how bad it makes u feel.
One of the most haunting films ever made. I would like to know your thoughts about, "The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)'" - another iconic film set during the same period of history.
Hi I never read the Tin Drum in German which is regrettable, but the overblown theatrical characters of Gunther Grass’s scathing vignette of Nazi Germany is nevertheless etched into my psyche! He has been accused of caricaturising an entire generation in order to demonise it for the sake of their ‘ innocent’ descendants! Whereas history proves perfectly that‘ Normal’ people will do monstrous things as circumstances demand for the sake of surviving a real or perceived threat! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over His Creation from Jerusalem forever.
movie still brings out so many emotions! Which is a wonderful thing; we as humans should never forget such horrible events of our past…“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” W. C.
I was 13 years old. My parents took me to the theatre to watch it as WW2 and the Holocaust was apart of my school exams. From start to finish no one in the theatre moved. When the credits rolled, no one moved, no one said a word. We all sat there in silence until the lights went on. I’ve never experienced anything like it ever again.
The movie is a solid piece of movie history and reminder of a terrible moment in human history.
I am truly heartbroken about what a person, a kid had to endure because of these individuals that can't be anything than Satan's spawn.
This was our experience with Sound of Freedom, Jim Caviezel’s movie on child trafficking.
Don’t fret. Luckily for you, what actually happened was nothing even remotely resembling what this propaganda piece depicted. Not even a little bit.
@-Swamp_Donkey- Can't even imagine,the misery, trauma and hell those people had to endure. Although l was born in 1960,since l can remember,this period in history is single-handedly one of the worst and disturbing things that happen. A tragedy that l find impossible to comprehend or forget.
@@HansRichter-lh9gt to some extent, we judge this because it is reported. The starvation, purges, imprisonment, and deaths in Communist Russia, Communist China, and Communist Cambodia were as bad just reported as much. Our media judges Nazi as evil (it is) but neither reports nor vilifies Communism. IMHO.
The current First Lady of Poland is the granddaughter of a woman who was on Schindler's list. She was the only member who survived
Wow. That's impressive 😊
That explains (at least to me) why Poland has more backbone than most of Europe and the World has for tolerating Russian Nazism in Ukraine.
Thank you.
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Kind of like how four brothers from Ukraine fought the Nazis, and only one survived. That was Vladimir Zelenskyy's grandfather.
@@ginmar8134 and in an ironic twist zelensky is now supporting Nazis...the AZOV battalion.
Are u sure about that statement
Not gonna lie....I saw this movie for the first time when I was 11 years old, living in Japan, because my father was stationed there. I saw a warning about violence and nudity, and was "all in".....What followed was two hours of history....It changed my life...This movie should be required viewing....
Do you think you were ready at 11?
@@rontan4566 absolutely not
@@rontan4566 in germany it's just rated for 12yo - but then again germans don't believe, that seeing a nipple can harm children.
@@montanus777 Correctly so.
It is part of the curriculum here in Germany
I remember forging my parents signatures on the permission slip to see this for history class, and came away stunned. Schools didn't cover the Holocaust in any way like this film and it brought a gritty realism to what we only got in a couple pages in books. There was a huge uproar at the school after some kids came home completely traumatized, and I'm glad to this day that the teachers stood their ground and continued showing this in the years after as part of their class.
And as harrowing as it is, it doesn't show a lot of the more horrifying atrocities that were committed. Spielberg himself said that there were some things he just couldn't film (in particular the things done to babies/children). Even Come and See, which is an even more realistic portrayal of the horrors, only scratches the surface.
@@Monoville Come And See was going to have way worse stuff in it but they said if they film what they had planned nobody would see it, they wouldn't make it through, what we got was actually a watered down, censored version.
I remember talking to my niece (15 at the time) about school and her classes. When I found out that they covered WWII in less than 2 pages and the Holocaust in less than a paragraph I was shocked
I asked her, if she wanted to learn more if her Mom approved. We watched both Scheindlers List and The Pianist read books together. And even had the opportunity to go see a survivor of Auschwitz give a speech. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to bond with and teach a younger generation.
Good for you. Not a week goes by I don't think of the film.
I saw it with a bunch of friends after work, and going in we were all laughing and joking.
Leaving, we had all the merriment of children at their parents funeral.
I was in high school in the 70's and we were shown actual film of the concentration camps. What the Allies witnessed when they discovered them and the actual cleanup and burial of corpses the SS guards were forced to do. Corpses were bulldozed into mass graves, some lampshades made of human skin, and decomposing bodies stacked like firewood. There was no denying what took place and what indoctrinated people were capable of. It sent an indelible message that words alone could not convey. Nowadays the images are blurred or cut out entirely so as not to offend anyone. One day the graphic nature will be forgotten and people won't fully appreciate the widespread cruelty and absolute lack of compassion that humans can assume.
I had forgotten how hauntingly beautiful the score is.
When the descendants of the people saved by Schindler’s list file past in colour, I just become a basket case. What a brilliant way to reinforce the importance and impact of that list in real life.
Did you know that the people accompanying the survivors placing the rock on Oskar Schindler's grave were the actors that played them?
Especially the ending of that sequence where the camera pans over to hundreds or even thousands of more people waiting to put a stone on his grave.
The end always brings me to tears. They are not the actors, they are the real survivors and their relatives.
@@youngbess1 They are the the real survivors accompanied by the actors that portrayed them as @sarahhumphreys3980 said. If you look closely at their faces you will recognize them from the film, especially the child that had to hide in the toilet to avoid being hauled off.
There’s lies, damned lies, then there’s recorded history
Those who ignore history, are destined to repeat it. Deep respect for Schindler
We actually repeat history despite deep documentation.
Years later it's israhells turn at committing genocide against Palestine
And "Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana.
No were doomed to repeat it. It's just those who understand history have to see it and can do nothing
And those who deny history, WANT to repeat it.
Schindler's List is still a masterpiece. I cannot believe that this movie turns 30 this year. One of the greatest films EVER made even though it is a very dark, somber and heartbreaking film.
When my now-wife and I saw it in the theater at an afternoon showing, we were so energized and lifted by the story we went back and saw it again that evening. And it was a good thing we did because we realized that the film had broken in the projector where the last splice between black and white and color stock was and they had brought up the house lights like the film was over; the splice was fixed in the evening showing.
@@hubbsllc You were "fired up" by this movie and wanted to watch it again??
@@toddgaak422 Exceptionally poor choice of words on my part (will edit; thanks for pointing it out) but you get my meaning. We were astonished by what Schindler was able to accomplish in the face - *right in the face* - of such a brutal and horrible regime. And the audacity and bravery of Stern, Pfefferberg, and so many others.
30 years later:Still an unforgettable masterpiece
Still as heart wrenching and to think that’s only what they can show to the audience x1000 and you don’t even get close
YES
30 years later, a movie that makes you cry by just remember it.
@speedy-vu6vrthey really hammed it up for the movie, but the premise is solid. It had to happen, and will happen again.
@speedy-vu6vryou are so wrong
It was the greatest and at the same time the most painful movie to watch. The actors were traumatized during just filming it. I cannot even imagine the pain of the poor people who survived and died in real life. I spent time with famlies of survivors growing up in the 70s and the pain was openly talked about but never taught to me in school except for the Diary of Anne Frank. I did not know how awful it was. Thank you to all who worked so hard to share their stories and never forget.
Movie is based on a novel . basically fiction.
@@redwater4778 I disagree. It is based on real events THAT HAPPENED in storyteller form. Are you a holocaust denier? Is the earth flat?
@@lydias2012 Why make a movie based on a novel? Were there no truthful stories to be told about the war years, camps?
@@redwater4778 Schindler existed, the people he saved, what happened on the ghettos and camps including the commadant shooting people from his house. What the heck are you talking about? You want a documentary? Watch one. They are great also. The novel was based on actual events. What part of that don't you understand? Schindler was a little shadier than represented and red dress thing was made up. But most it matches the testimony of survivors. Check it out I actually watched the interviews from survivors of events the book was based on. I really am gobsmacked about where you are coming from.
@@lydias2012 No, I do not think there are any truthful stories that can be told about the war & camps.
You don't watch Shindler's List, you experience it.
Riveting.
Excellent way of putting it
YES
Brilliant. Thank you
Well said!
It is not a “ regular” film. We are looking at a very dark and demonic era in human history.
As an Arabian of heritage myself, it brings me a great deal of shame and disgrace how Arab nations forbid this movie out of sheer political spite.
This movie is bigger than that, it is a story to compel all humans to find compassion towards one another in the darkest of moments for the purest of hearts.
We must always put life before religion, ethnical bias or any political affairs that are designed to tear us apart.
Perfectly said ,....
It isn't political spite. It's anti-Semitism.
Which is much worse.
It should
There actually is a lot of nudity in it though
That can be taken out ,no problem
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I took a class on Nazi Germany which required a great deal of reading, writing and thinking about this terrible time in history. It went on for a full semester, and by the end, I felt traumatized in a way no other class had ever done to me. The class delved deeply into the whole situation and is forever etched into my mind and psyche. I am glad I took the class, since it brought me up close to the time, but at the end, I remember coming home, sitting at my table, and sobbing uncontrollably for a time, as if my heart had broken into a million pieces, which it had done. The impact of this class was stronger than any I ever took and I will never forget it. Schindler's List ranks with the same weight on my heart as this class, even though it did not go on as long as the class, and bravo to those people who can, and are willing to bring this dark time into the light for us all to remember.
I know right it’s very insane stuff and to think there’s still genocide going on to this day. And other Genocides that have been committed like Japan in World War II and beyond before. And then America with the Native Americans and the colonist. Colonialism/ imperialism. A lot of history is destroyed. Luckily, some people preserve some of it. I didn’t even know about the crazy, intense civilizations. There was of Native Americans a whole more advanced, civilization, never even heard of it, buried underground and destroyed. . Until college. And that was in archaeology.
@@Puppy_Puppington I agree. Presently, we have Palestine, and the it is sad that the West is brainwashed to accept anything that Israel does as acceptable. It is not difficult to find out the truth, however, and with the internet available, there is no excuse for ignoring genocide. I urge anyone reading this to please, look for the truth, and not just accept everything that you hear on the evening news. We need a miracle, now, to stop this genocide and save what is left of the people of Gaza. Thank you for reading.
I'm reading Schindler's list right now and it's insane. It doesn't seem real. Like something made up in a spy novel. But it happened and it's insane
I saw the film in the theater when it first came out, I was about 30. I remember being haunted by it for days, no movie before it had done the same. Nor since. The barbarity, the banality of evil, "it's policy now". This film does indeed bear witness to murder, and it's so important to continue to do so.
I am from Minnesota. I watched it at the mall of America and the auditorium was filled. There was a group of about 4-5 people that were disruptive& saying all kinds of antisemitic remarks and a couple of them left and didn’t come back in. At the end of the movie, when people were exiting, there were several of the group that had came in making those remarks that left with a tear in their eye, and seemed remorseful of their actions. That brought me to tears as I seen it, make a change in people.
Did anybody have the guts to tell them to shut the f-- up or they’d get their as-- kicked?
If not / why not?
When I visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, two items were on my mind, one conscious and one unconscious. I consciously looked for the Emmanuel Ringlebaum diaries, but never did find them. As I made my way through the museum I noticed a glass case at a distance. In it were what appeared to be pages from a book. I edged closer (the museum was crowded with school children) I saw that they were typewritten pages. In an instant, I realized what I was seeing. I reached the glass case and, in spite of the rules, I had to put my hand on the glass for it was Schindler's List. I stood there crying my eyes out, sobbing uncontrollably. I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned to see a very pretty high school girl and she handed me a tissue. I will never, ever forget that moment. Not ever. I will return to Yad Vashem and I will find the diaries, but will read the transcript first.
Schindler's List is one of the most important films ever made. I'll never say it should be required viewing (that's up to the individual), but I cannot recommend it highly enough.
As for the musical score it is, in my opinion, John Williams' greatest work. Everyone remembers Star Wars, but this masterpiece relegates all Williams' other works to second-tier status. It is pure auditory genius that wraps itself around the visual impact and brutality of the film.
Thank you for sharing so movingly your experience.
There's another great film about Jewish people in prisoner camp ,its called playing for time😢,
How eloquent you are. Lovely❤
Scandalous that Ralph Fiennes didn’t get an Oscar for his role in the film. Outstanding so believable the personification of evil 👿
The Academy is dumb. Ralph's performance in this movie was terrifying, accurate and brilliant on so many levels. He should have won the Oscar plain and simple.
Well he became Voldemort too
@@roxy5588 for fiction?
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Are you literally just going through comments trying to trigger people with holocaust denial?
Trolls used to be a lot smarter, this world is doomed 🤦♂️
@@moshco23 Only around 4million of these lying frauds in Europe at the time. More than 4m claimed reparations after the war. Go figure it. It ain't rocket science.
There was never a plan to literally do away with these perpetual liars.
There was definitely a plan to literally remove them from Europe.
Most of them were communist and sexual degenerates.
It wasn't a "brutal depiction", it was simply an accurate depiction
An accurate depiction of brutality?
.... Which is brutal, no?
Were you there?
@OIFVET2003 Yes, I thought it must be pretty accurate. Thanks for sharing that.
A great movie, even if hard to watch.
Probably it was even worse in reality....
Upon the movie's release, I attended a showing in which the theater was packed, When the final credits rolled, I witnessed something I have never ever seen in a theater. The atmosphere was solemn as people sat quietly, then exited slowly without anyone saying a word, with the exception of soft crying and others wiping tears.
I had that same experience at the first showing of the movie Platoon. After the end credits rolled everyone was still in their seats and the theater was quiet. Once people left, they gathered in the theater lobby and stood around and talked. I know there were more than a few Veterans there because there was some crying and hugging going on.
In which country was this?
I remember watching it in the theatre with my Grandmother. I felt like a monster because I wasn't crying like most were. (I still found it extremely somber) Then when the end came where Schindler is bashing himself for being greedy and not saving just one more life, the floodgates opened for me. (It still does to this day)
For me the girl in the red coat, I noticed right away and asked my Grandmother "This is a black and white movie, right?" My Grandmother said "Yea." I said "That girl is wearing a red coat" My Grandmother responded "Yea......wow." I think we both knew that we'd see that little girl later in the movie no longer alive. Though I'm loathe to bring up another monster, it reminded me of Stalin's comment: "A million dead is a statistic, one dead is a tragedy"
My mother grew up in Poland during this time, I heard all the stories about what happened
@@danrook5757 I just can't imagine living through that.
@@TomSmith-he1nl : when I went to visit relatives in the summer, I had no desire to visit the war museums,
@@danrook5757 I don't blame you. (Though I hope the visit with relatives was an awesome one. :) )
What happened to the little girl really got to me
I have a strong connection with this movie because when I was in elementary school, one of my teachers was an actual Holocaust survivor and she had the tattoos on her arms, but some ignorant classmates thought that it was cool, I just saw them and knew what they meant… Such a horrific time in history
strong connection to an event that didn't happen over 70 years ago? Right.....surreeeeeee
A Jewish teacher? I don’t buy it.
you do know you are proving Stevin Spielberg's message right@@tenanaciouz
Fake tatoo.
Actually, depending on the age of this person who had the teacher, that is very possible.
Man what a great guy Robin Williams was... How can someone bring so much joy to others and still be sad himself.
As someone who suffers chronic depression lemme tell ya. No matter what happens, no matter how happy I am. There's a little demon on the corner of my psyche whispering "fuck you you're gonna die. Entropy is the only God." even if you make millions of people happy. That doesn't go away.
Of course he made other people happy. He frantically made people happy. Manically tried to make people happy. Because why would he want anyone else to feel the way he did?
You just described 95% of stand up comedians.
He was only sad because he had a chronic disease causing his brain to misfire. It’s called lewey body dementia and it can cause all kinds of problems. Robin normally was a very happy to lucky person. This was an extremely unlikely event that happened with him
@@hulmadYou’re so right
I actually took the girl in red much differently. To me it showed the individuality of the victims. When they are in a group, they lose some of their humanity. To be able to focus on one individual, you really saw her story, her struggle. To be able to focus on one, you become emotionally invested her outcome. You root for this one girl while hundreds of others are being slaughtered. I think it's emotionally easier to digest the carnage when focusing on this sweet, innocent girl and seeing things from her perspective. Then when you see her dead body with all others, you then can feel how that story played out exponentially with hundreds of little girls just like her. The weight of that is so emotional and draws you into the movie and makes your heart ache for the millions of people that suffered the same fate as she did. It's so heavy but heavy with a purpose. Additionally I didn't think the red of her coat meant anything other than being able to pick her out in a crowd, though I don't think her wearing blood red was by accident.
Exactly. You would make a great screen writer as you were able to understand all the thoughts that went into that
Well said. 100%
@@nickisnyder3450 thank you
I believe this is why, we are often more affected by a trauma we witness happening to one person, than to a large group who each is suffering. We cannot grasp the group's suffering, but we can get in there and empathize with one person's pain.
When I saw the film in the theater the first time, at first the color of the coat didn't register with me. The gag in my view was to show us Schindler noticing her as she moved among the carnage. And then Schindler - and we - notice her again in the pile. That would not have worked in black and white.
The little girl in the red coat to me represented the innocent. She casually walked through the chaos that was going on around her, people being pushed out of their homes, people being shot, and people who were forced onto the trains going to their deaths.
She walked through all of it and went to go hide. She held your gaze as if she could have been your own daughter. When we see her in a wheel barrow it’s like they stripped that hope away and you’re left thinking “those murderers and bastards. Why’d they have to kill her?”
This masterpiece should top anyone’s list of greatest film of all time. There are times when I think of this movie and tears flow. No other flick ever has evoked this type of reaction. It stays with you no matter how many years pass. Brilliant, fantastic. Really no words to describe it
I watched this movie for the first time like 7 years ago late at night. I was so shaken by the entire thing. It is probably still my favorite film of all time, no other movie has quite captured the same sense of terror, hope and sadness as this one
It’s true. One that first comes to mind is ‘ The Pianist ‘ .
This movie to this day is my number one simply because of how powerful it is. It still makes me cry
That's how I feel too! The end where the survivors of the list are walking toward the camera gets me every time I have watched it. I had seen it several times when I brought it up to my neighbors home. He had the belief that the Holocaust was exaggerated. So I wanted him to watch this film. I told him to make sure there was a box of tissues because I knew he would need them. When that last seen occurred he broke down (he was already crying) he started crying so hard he was having troubles breathing but he was saying over and over how wrong he was and he recognized the horror these people had gone through. Writing this comment has me crying remembering my friends reaction. A few years later he and his father went to the Volga region of Russia (his grandfather and grand uncles came from that region) but they went to Auschwitz before returning to the states and he said that trip was the most emotion and moving part of his trip.
And yet some Constitutional fetishists think that Neo NotSees (this algorithm is so unpredictable) should enjoy Constitutional Freedoms of Speech, Assembly and Association. Germany's Constitution is far better. It defines National Socialist symbols, gestures and propaganda as UNCONSTITUTIONAL. (The band KISS has to change it's SS to ZZ for CDs and band merchandise exported to Germany...and two of KISS are Jewish.)
Liam Neeson should have won the oscar
It's not just the Jews who have the duty to make sure that no one ever forgets the Holocaust, it's also those of us who have friends that survived the holocaust and parents who liberated the nazi death camps
There is a survivor buried in a small cemetery in New Zealand. He lost his wife and 5 children in a camp. He met his 2nd wife in a displaced persons camp and they had two children before coming here, His brother escaped before the War and Alec got here not long before Harry and Harry's 2 daughters died. I show everyone I can the graves and tell the stories. It's important and it makes it real.
I'll never forget the first time I watched this movie when it came out. I ran out of the room crying because of how horrifying it was, shaken even more so by the fact it actually happened. I'm even more frightened that there are people who believe even now the number of lives lost during the Holocaust "wasn't enough."
They even cheer those trying to finish it as “freedom fighters” and “resistance”
They call the terrorists’ main nest a concentration camp, even though the Jews themselves made it judenrhein just to appease them
Are you serious?!😮How sick can you GET?!😮
Nazis and neo-Nazis are all mentally ill!
This movie just affects you in ways very few can. After watching it, it stays with you forever. Easily Spielberg’s Magnus opus and Liam Neeson’s best performance, and obviously Ralph Fiennes is absolutely sensational as Amon Goeth. Who is one of the most intimidating and scary characters I have ever seen in a movie. His presence, malevolence and cruelty are incredibly impactful.
@metsfan92286 I can only imagine how impactful this film was for a Jewish person watching. I agree that despite its dark themes and psychologically frightening scenes, it is vital to watch it.
We can never allow what transpired in Germany in the 1930s to ever happen again. Which is why it’s of paramount importance that films like this and the history of the atrocities committed during WW2 should be taught rigorously. People don’t quite realize how much the First and Second World War impacted the world and even things like the geographical lay-out of Europe and the Middle East. It may have ended in 1945, but it was succeeded by the Cold War that pervaded society and public paranoia for decades to come.
I am Jewish, married outside my religion. We have twin sons who we sat down with to watch this film so as they had an understanding of were I am coming from in these matter as beliefs. Rocked them to the core that this really happened.
May Steven Spielberg be forever blessed for making this film
@@youngbess1I am not Jewish. But my husband is. I, like some others, saw this movie in school, when I was about 16, about 3 years after it came out (so around 1996). It hit me like a mack truck, even then. When I watched it again years later, after I'd married my husband, it hit me like another mack truck, in a whole new, even more powerful way. Because it wouldn't have just been my husband who was taken. It would've been me, too, for marrying a Jewish man. It would've been any kids we have, for simply being born with a Jewish father. It just she'd a whole new light on it, made me see it from a whole new perspective, you know? I almost felt it personally-at least, as much as someone who wasn't there, can. I always knew that I'd want any kids my husband and I had, to watch this film, when they were old enough, and mature enough. My son and I read Maus together, a few years ago, when he was around 13. He's 15 now, and tonight he, his father and I, all sat down and watched Schindler's List together, for the first time. I think it really made an impact on him. He was quiet and focused on the movie, and never picked up his phone (lol) the whole time. Though we did talk a little, about certain scenes, while it was playing. He went right to his room after, to play video games with his friends, but I think he probably needs some lighthearted distraction after the levity of the heavy film. He did say he thought it was a really good film, a really good telling of such a tragic story. And I'm sure we'll talk more about it later, when he's had time to think about it. When it sinks in. I'm always open with him about anything, this very much included, and if ever it's on his mind, and he brings it up, or vice versa, we'll talk about it. I'm so glad I got this opportunity to teach him further, about his heritage, and to honor with remembrance those who suffered, those who died, and those who risked it all, to help them.
Magnum Opus you pleb.
I was in Krakow this summer for a wedding, I visited the Plaszow camp, it's a beautiful park today but you can read the signs they put up all around the park describing what took place from 1943 to 1945.
I filmed a mini documentary and it was very difficult to narrate knowing what took place there.
Without a doubt one of the most important films ever made.
Literal propaganda haha
@@nfaisnfgay fiction
@@nfaisnfgayso you’re saying the Germans were incompetent?
I’m guessing you’ve never met a survivor?
I’d ‘haha’ but that would make me look at foolish as you.
No thanks.@@nfaisnfgay
@@Quaker-tc8ue my brother in Christ, the movie is based on a book. This is literally a fiction movie. Come on haha. You’re not this addicted to propaganda, are you??
Even though the movie was intentionally made in black and white, it made the film what I like to call "hyper-realism". I own this film but when I first saw it at age 8, I thought it was real. The executions were so brutally realistic, to this day I cry watching this film. To see a tiny fraction of a glimpse of how horrid and diabolical the Holocaust was. Truly horrific yet also a masterpiece. It needed to be filmed so that people don't forget how evil can take over humanity at an instant if you let yourself go numb from the atrocities that man can and have done
A very interesting point, I forget sometimes it is in black and white because of how powerful it is when it shows the horror that happened during that period of time.
In does give a sense of realism and almost a documentary type of film. I never wondered how it would of been like in color.
In the only spot of color was red n go see her go end up n gas camber going along the belt. Smh.
The little girl in the red coat was actual. She was witnessed by Schindler and his companion, walking as if invisible through utter mayhem. She was even identified, I think in the book although I no longer have a copy. She died in the Holocaust. A masterpiece of filmmaking, watchable again and again, if you can stand the subject matter. I remember when it came out, a notice appeared in Santa Monica theaters about the length, with a statement that the theater would break the film in the middle so people could go out to their cars and put more money in the meter.
Her name was Gittel (Genia) Chill. She was 4 years old when murdered.🔯
One of the best movies I struggle to watch again.
@@PeterZvg The entire narrative is fiction.
Only around 4million of these so called victims in Europe at the time. More than 4m claimed reparations after the war. Go figure it. It ain't rocket science.
There was never a plan to literally do away with these people. Remove them from Europe???? You bet. Most of them were communist and sexual degenerates.
You can't coexist with them.
Look at the United States....totally wrecked by them.....open borders, filth and degeneracy and usary, Federal Reserve Bank of endless debt and worthless money.
It's way past time to show them the ocean.....sink or swim.
@lupusdeum3894 that was the girls character name in the fictional book by Thomas Kenally who wrote Schindlers Ark that the movie was based. While There's an anecodote told by a holocaust survivor about a little girl in a red coat murdered after selection, there's zero evidence the incident in the movie occurred. Oscar Schindler wasn't anywhere near the hill at the time the little girl was reportedly killed.
Sorry but this isn't accurate. While There's an anecodote told by a holocaust survivor about a little girl in a red coat murdered after selection, there's zero evidence the incident in the movie occurred. Oscar Schindler wasn't anywhere near the hill at the time the little girl was reportedly killed.
Watched this movie in grade 9 history. I havent seen it since,but it is one of those movies. Once you see it,you cant unsee it. Although my memories are vague after all these years, i do recall scenes,the story and how it made me feel.
I agree. I watched this when I was in high school as my teacher let us view it for our world history class. I cried buckets and until now I can’t bring myself to rewatch it. This movie’s impact is so deep and maybe that’s why I became fond of watching WWII movies. I wanted to learn more how and why it happened. It must have been so terrifying to be in that situation and I truly hope that humanity will never repeat it ever.
@@blueCC3I’m doubly sure the theaters for the 30th anniversary reissue later this year will be “sardine tins of teens” like how it was for the 25th in 2018.
This movie was so hard to watch. Not because it was bad but it just shows how a powerful of a movie this was and it’s unforgettable
I watched it as a teenager back in the 90s, maybe 13 or 14 years old. It struck me. We learn a lot about the Holocaust in school in Germany, so of course, I already knew a lot. But having it, not in a documentary, but in this movie was so different. I think, Schindlers List is one of the most important movies of all time. It is a reminder and a warning. The actors were amazing as well as the music. In a lot of schools in Germany, Schindlers List is watched in 9th or 10th grade with the whole class. Yes, it is traumatizing, but in my opinion, as a 15 or 16years old, it is time to watch it and realize how fragile our society is and how easy it is to start hating someone for being different just because someone tells you "they are the reason for your problems".
OMG. How prophetic is that. Scary.😢
I rented the video. It took four attempts to complete the film….it was that emotional. I say this as an adult, father, and former Army Infantry Officer in Germany in the 1980’s. Even more intense than the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
I worked on Shindler's List with Stevie Spielberg in late summer of 1972. He knew about the Jewish tombstones as pavements, but upside down and paved over. List was always Steven's ultimate achievement.
It’s that old?
@@jonathanwilliams1065 The events of Schindler's List took place in WWII. Stevie and I worked for Ann Richards in Dallas in the summer of 1972. So Steve kept the story in that Indiana Jones notebook with the elastic snap strap (used as a prop for that film). So, yeah, List took a very long time to get made. Long intervals were common for stories to become movies, lots of set up, financing, etc., I guess.
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Richard Dreyfus?
I'm not Mr. Dreyfus. He's an actor. @@fungirl0905
This is done well. Thanks for the information and your respectful way of presenting it. Good job!
One of the finest presentations I have ever seen. I did lose a distant relative in the Holocaust and this movie still has the power to conjure up my emotions on the subject.
SL and The Pianist should been seen by every student. They're hard movies but the value they bring are worth it
At least me and my classmates watched The Pianist during Junior year of high school.
@@jessicab831 Same
Add "son of saul" and "come and see" to that list ... while SL and the pianist are emotionally taxing I had to pause the first movie twice and the second made me feel physically sick at one point.
@Gehtklar Meister haven't seen either, so thank you for the heads up.
The pianist is my favourite movie. I’m going to rewatch SL now that I’m older. I heard so much about the war as a little kid and there were survivors in my apartment building, heaps,of them .
I’ve watched much about this…I know it effected Spielberg greatly…Robin Williams seems like such a giving heart…I’m not surprised that he reached out
There are movies, and then there are masterpieces. The most sorrowful thing about this film is that it actually happened. Everyone says the world is so much better now, but is it really? We must all strive for kindness and compassion in our every day lives.
Movies that educate his about the horrors in history are both horrible and necessary. Horrible in that they relive the worst in our lack of humanity and necessary because we have to learn from history or we will relive it. Sadly, we are reliving some of the elements of the Nazis today.
Indeed Jan. The same horrors are being replayed. It is just the names and location have changed.
What's the answer? I guess regimes and other diseases should never be allowed to outgrow their pot!
Wishing you and yours peace from a French forest. 🌞🇬🇧
@@nigelcarren Thank you and same to you. It’s always nice to hear from a likeminded friend. 🙏
I agree with you, the Bach scene in the liquidation of the ghetto is also my favorite, largely because I was a sophomore piano major and I had just spent several months working on that English Suite.
Saw this movie when it first came out. Theater was packed. I sat next to an older lady and her husband. At a certain point she grabbed my arm and started digging her fingers into it. So emotional, I had marks on my arm for days after.
My dad told me to watch it before going on a school trip to Poland to and the near by camps when I was 15, we sat and watched it together. It is such a powerful film, we both cried. to call it one of my favourites wouldn't be right but it is a meaningful and well done films I think have ever been made. it made my trip to Poland and the camps not "better" but certainly more meaningful. If you are reading this and have not seen it I beg you to watch it. it is not an easy thing to see and it can be difficult to watch at points, However, I think it is so important to understand what happened During that time. Not only to know what happened but to feel it like the film makes you feel it.
You know a film is great when a re-enactment brings you to tears. This movie gives people "the feels", but it's something I could never watch again, just like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
I accidentally saw the ending of Pajamas again recently. Along with the horrific truths being shown, how could the mom be married to such a cruel and sick man?
@@lindafeldman8587 The ending of Pajamas and Vera's emotional state of sadness and bawling always guarantees me to be crying my eyes out.
Got that way watching Passion of the Christ and Million Dollar Baby as well. So powerful when a movie actually brings one to such tears.
@@loveforeignaccents Absolutely. The Way We Were will always do the trick!
@@lindafeldman8587 Never heard of it. Will have to look into it. Thanks.
@@loveforeignaccents You must be quite young! A wonderful movie. Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. OMG!
I enjoyed this - the movie is beyond words and, I have to say, if the movie doesn't bring people to tears, the theme will. It does me every time I hear it.
I was simply blown away by this movie. When Steven Spielberg came up at the end, I was shocked. It was like Zane Gray had turned around and written Hamlet. Taking nothing away from Spielberg's other movies, but they are schlock, this is a masterpiece.
The little girl in red could also be viewed as a reference to the autobiographical novel "Night" by Elie Wisel. the last time the author saw his little sister she was wearing a little red coat.
Yes that’s what I believe too.
This was a classic. It was moving. It evoked sadness and emotion. It was well done.
Watched this with my Thai fiance while living in Bangkok. She's a university graduate with a bachelor's degree, however, schools in E. Asia do not teach world history at all. Her knowledge of WW2 was that the US fought the Japanese, with absolutely no knowledge of the European War, Hitler, the Nazis or the holocaust. Most Buddhists have never even heard of the Jewish faith, consequently have no knowledge of antisemitism throughout history. She was very shocked by what she was seeing and could not understand why people, who to her eyes were exactly the same as each other, were doing these things to others. I quite literally had to go all the way back to the beginning explaining the differences between the Christian and Jewish faiths, antisemitism over centuries and the attitudes that lead to this nightmare happening. Believe me when I say that the so called differences between Christians and Jews are even more ridiculous when you're trying to explain them out loud. In doing all of that explaining, I realized that reasons for the Holocaust and the justifications given for it are even worse then I thought they were while learning them as a boy, and they were pretty terrible then as well. It really does change your view of it through trying to tell the story yourself. And yes, I was there when the chicken restaurant was using a stylized picture of Hitler as their logo, but that proves my point about a complete lack of world history not being taught in every level of education though university. They had absolutely no idea who Hitler was and what his monstrous crimes were, it was just a picture of a goofy looking westerner that they liked.
It’s not about the differences between Christianity and Judaism
Hitler after all wanted to get rid of Christianity, but though other means, including the creation of “positive Christianity” which worshiped Hitler
The little girl in the red coat turned out to be an actual child who was smuggled out of the ghetto and survived. When she saw the film, she realized it was depicting her, Roma Ligocka . She wrote a memoir entitled “The Girl in the Red Coat”. It is an incredible story!
How would that work? :P The ghettos were removed after the war, the actress of the girl in red was born long after.
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@mrsomebody5087 the real person in real life the child actress is depicting, not the actress. These actors play real people or based on real people
@@mrsomebody5087 She's describing the REAL Person, not the actress.
Rominka Liebling
November 13, 1938 (age 85)
Kraków, Poland
@@bostonphotographer20 Thank you for clarifying that, I got confused too.
Tzar Boris III of Bulgaria saved nearly 50 000. When Germany ordered Bulgaria to surrender its 50,000 Jews during World War II, the Bulgarian people refused, saving nearly all of them from deportation and death. No movie was ever made about that.
Should be
Very interesting. Yes you need to push for this to be made into a movie!
@@gemmag.2988 I wish I could.
I love the facts that people turned down parts in this movie because of how incredibly serious and important it was ❤
I believe what people turned down was to be paid for taking part.
This movie had me crying like a baby midway through the movie, so glad this masterpiece was made
31) Although Josef Leipold, the commandant of Schindlers Brinnlitz camp, is shown as a passive figure in the movie he was so brutal at previous camps that he was executed in 1949 for war crimes.
I didn't think I'd be so emotional seeing this, as i haven't seen the film in years. Thank you. And thank you, Stephen Spielberg. 🌹
I haven’t seen this in years. Watching the girl crawl under the bed made me burst into tears.
An amazingly accurate, touching and moral story as has ever been told.
one of the most serious topics a film has ever depicted, and you still gotta use that "hey guys! I'm a happy youtube narrator guy" voice...
Its only bizzare to those who dont know about cluster B personality disorders.
This video isn’t about the topic of the film though, is it? I think when the video is meta and the tone of voice is on brand, it’s acceptable to talk like a youtuber.
@@satsumamoon???
@@drown_n doesnt experience emotions in the way a human does.
Brilliant documentary. Well done to "The Why" for posting it. I can see that you put a lot of effort into this documentary and that you did it with respect for both the Holocaust victims and Steven Spielberg. Once again, well done. Sadly in our world today, we still see these atrocities. Mervyn Nel Author.
This was one of those masterpieces that should never be redone or given a sequel.
It couldn't be redone without Neeson Fiennes and Kingsley thats impossible they are such great actors and some of the co stars Neeson should have got an oscar. But we now know how dodgy the oscars committees are.after will smith and the slap spineless and stupid
What about a prequel? It could be the USAs genocide of the native Americans.
@@bradsanders407 😂
@Brad Sanders that has nothing to do with Schindler's list, the Nazis or World war 2
Sequel? Hardly
one of the greatest films ever made
I remember watching this film in high school after it came out. You could hear a pin drop in that auditorium. Such a powerful film.
I think i saw it in school or college
Neesom was robbed of the Oscar for his portrayal of Oskar Schindler.
Excellent actors both Liam and ralf
Liam did not get the recognition he deserved. All eyes were on the show stopping scene with Fiennes. Yet his performance was easy compared to Neeson's. He just had to be a bastard whereas Neeson had had to be more nunaucned.
*nuanced
Neeson’s finest role in my opinion.
@@rridderbusch518 LOL. I know it is. I have absolutely no idea what happened to the end of my comment!
@@mollyscot1563 😀
Really ? I didnt reallly pay much attention to Fiennes's performance except during the weird scene where he is saying a monologue while standing next to the Helen Hirsch character. That was a really great villainous performance. Otherwise, I was mainly paying attention to Neeson and Kingsley.
It's one of those movies where you will cry pretty much all the way through it. But I think Schindler's List is a reminder how thankful we are to be here today. I cannot imagine the horror what those people went through
It's still going on War and Genocide
I didn't cry at all until the very end when I heard 'you have been liberated by the Soviet Army' and the actors walking morphed into the Schindler survivors. I've never been able to see the graveside scene properly through sobbing tears.
I still cannot watch this film without weeping uncontrollably . I'm Spiritual, not Jewish. I'm amazed at how incredibly cruel, careless and oblivious, we as a race truly are.
How God allows us to continue on, is mind boggling.
Nicely done. I had always thought (and heard) that the hand laying the flower at the very end was Spielberg. I remember years ago, when Torrents were a thing, I downloaded "Schindler's List," thinking I was downloading the book. What it was, was a scanned copy of the actual list. It blew me away, actually seeing that list, with the tattered edges and yellowed paper. It's a very "right in the middle of the moment" historical document, to think that those names were typed in a time crunch effort to save those lives. It reminded me of another "right in the middle of the moment" document I saw....the original train manifest from the Train that left the Westerbork Transit camp in the Netherlands, on September 3, 1944 to Auschwitz. That was the train Anne Frank and the other 8 from the Annex were on. Passenger number 306...Anneliese Frank, 12.6.29, right below her mother, number 305. The yellowed original passenger list is on display at The Anne Frank house. The birthdate was important, because there was another error (liberal license) in Shchindler's list. When the train is routed to Auschwitz, they arrive at night and many of the small children were on the train (including the little girl with the glasses). The next day, they are evacuated to the new plant location, including the children. Every one of those children would have gone right to the gas chambers...it was camp policy to immediately kill every child under the age of 15, and every person over the age of 55.
Not sure if you ever found out who lay that flower on the grave at the end of the movie, it was actually Liam Neeson that did. Just a tidbit of information.
Spielberg's reply to Williams at 3:05 really reminds me of when Goeth asked Schindler what his suit is made of. And Schinder replied "I would get you one but the man who made it is probably dead." Interesting stuff.
I have a necklace handmade from Ukraine. The website is now closed and the man who made it is probably dead.
This film is an absolute masterpiece. This should be required viewing by everyone at least once.
It's such a memory for the whole world yet Stalin killed as many Russians it's hardly ever spoken of
Or the fact that the Catholic church slaughtered circa fifty million souls over the years.
Hierarchy of victimhood
I know, and that really bothers me.
Stalin is protected by Hollywood.
More!
Stalin is a teen compared to Mao when it comes to genocide of your own people...
I didn't know most of these things. Thank you for making this video, and yes we need to discuss this now.
I have never before this been brought to tears by a TH-cam video. I guess there’s a first time for everything.
Can you imagine... can you just imagine how great both this film and Robin Williams are. To make one, he needed the help of the other.
I highly respected Robin Williams as a person and actor/comedian before. But learning about what he did for the people working on the film gave a whole new respect. He was an incredible man, there is no doubt about it
When a film Robin was doing on went ‘on location,’ either he or a production assistant had to go find ‘x’ number of homeless people to work on the film, ‘give them the dignity of a day’s work and a day’s pay.’@@odeleya1768
I'm convinced that the Nazi wife's stark red coat in the Band of Brothers "Why We Fight" is a direct link to the Jewish child in this film dying in the Holocaust. I don't believe there are coincidences in Spielberg's work.
Watch the documentary “The Adolf Eichmann Trial,” and maybe you’ll catch the real life parallel that an actual Israeli prosecutor brings up that will give you other ideas not attributed to Steven Spielberg. A coincidence perhaps? I doubt it.
@@scottym6680 ??
Schindler feeling that he could've done more in the end made me cry so hard. I was emotionally disturbed and paused the movie for few minutes to process the scene. But then I started crying again while resuming it.
The irony of Mel Gibson wanting to play Schindler is overwhelming
That got my attention, too! But perhaps it would have made him a better man...
@@retriever19golden55 he would actually be too good for this role
I remember when this came out. My mom and I were leaving the night before to go out of town about 2 hours away for an appointment I had the next morning. We ended up having something happen with our vehicle and didn't want to chance going that far in case something happened on the way. We ended up going to this as it had just opened that day. It was at the mall in town and there were several showings of it and we were one of the last few people to take seats in that particular theater. I was in shock and teared up several times. I had to go to the bathroom and didn't want to leave and possibly miss something. One person did leave and was back real quick. Didn't hear anyone speak during the whole movie. My mom and I would look at each other several times during various scenes in shock. Hit me hard then and has every time I have watched it and always end up with tears flowing. It's at the top of my list of movies because of how well done it was showing the history of what happened during that time.
Ne of my favourite movies. Difficult to watch but essential to understand what is happening even now in the States. But I wish you had mentioned Ben Kingsley specifically as his performance was exquisite of what it must have been like to actually live in that time, under those circumstances. I'm so sorry Netflix took the movie off. I've watched it about 20 times! And now miss it.
Ben Kingsley did an amazing job. How he didn’t get nominated for Best Supporting actor at the Oscars is beyond me.
This movie is such a piece of history. It is so mesmerizing! The film was directed beautifully and the actors were cast perfectly. I have seen it 3 times, and cry almost all the way through it. It is a project of love.
One of the things that hammers this film home is the score. So agonizingly heart breaking.
I saw Thomas Keneally speak on his book “searching for Schindler”. The way pfefferberg hounded him to get the book written and the film made. He always said “an Oscar for Oskar.”
Pfefferberg deserves so much more credit than he gets.
I could never get into this film simply because I’ve read the book so many times and it depicts and describes the conditions in both camps a lot more graphically than the film does (or could). You get a much better sense of the hopelessness of the inmates situation from the book, as well as many events that the film doesn’t show.
Strange how the WJC were against filming in Auschwitz as the TV mini series War and Rememberance actually filmed their Auschwitz scenes in the real camp and not in a mock up.
And it wasn't very good, if I recall right.
I saw it in Berlin with my German best male friend and then-girlfriend. After movies, we always went for a beer together to talk about them and chat. But this time, we couldn't say a word. My friend just said, "I think we'd better just go home".
A survivor told (not a Schindler survivor) told me if they showed how bad it really was, no one would go to it, because it would be way too difficult and depressing to watch.
That is probably a true statement. Remember the scene when the Nazis were cleaning out the ghetto and they were throwing and emptying luggage over the balconies? Well the truth is they were throwing babies over the balconies and using them as skeet. Spielberg said there was no way that he could have ever filmed a scene like that.
I've said the same thing, just being an avid history fan, what all happened leading up to and then through the final days was horrific and definitely could no have been properly portrayed on scream w/out coming across as grotesque and outlandish. They rode a fine line in making this.
SL is a great movie because of the restraint. Starvation, disease, gas chambers and crematoria are only hinted at.
IIRC, the most violent scenes are the Krakow liquidation and the bonfires of bodies. The rest of the film is mostly conversations with a smattering of shootings.
One survivor told me that the people that came families with lots of money, did not last too long.
Fact of the matter is, when some leader of a country states that "Jews are responsible for all our problems" and goes in that direction, the country falls into catastrophy.
Erdogan and Lukashenko of Turkey and Belarus did not too long ago. The currencies of these countries is a tiny fraction of what it was before they took over.
Chavez of Venezuela did it too. Needless to say how that turned out.
Schindler settled in Munich after the war. There were Jews that he saved who settled there too and they had a store or a business or some sort. Schindler was living on social welfare at the time. He use to visit the Jews he saved at their business. They would always reach into their cash registers and give him some cash so he could get a good meal and go to a bar afterwards.
14:50 It took three times to hang Goth, because it was botched the first two times. I think what happened was the hangman did deliberately botched it the first two times. Even if things were not going so good they always had cash put away in case he showed up.
In a few concentration camps the SS had to take off quick because the Russians were coming. Once one SS guy was held back and the inmates got a hold of him.
They put him in the crematorium and baked him just enough so that he would not die and would do it again and again.
There is a Russian film about Sobibor which was one of the first concentration camps. It’s called “sobibor” and about Alexander Pechersky. Not easy to watch. Actor who played Pecherksy was also a director and he said that most movies about Holocaust don’t show reality and he wanted to show it and still beloved that he didn’t show it fully. I met many Holocaust survivors and it always amazed me how much they loved the life and always smiled.
It's just so sad to think that this actually happened - and could so easily happen again
"Could happen again"
There are currently similar genocides going around the world.
I was 10 when this came out. My mom insisted that i saw it. It left its mark on my life.
I can imagine how hard it was to make this movie. Ive been to the holocaust museum in Washington DC a few times. The last time, my wife wanted to go. I told her that is has to be at the end of our trip, just because how bad it makes u feel.
One of the greatest movies of all time.
One of the most haunting films ever made. I would like to know your thoughts about, "The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)'" - another iconic film set during the same period of history.
Another is "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
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I never read the Tin Drum in German which is regrettable, but the overblown theatrical characters of Gunther Grass’s scathing vignette of Nazi Germany is nevertheless etched into my psyche!
He has been accused of caricaturising an entire generation in order to demonise it for the sake of their ‘ innocent’ descendants! Whereas history proves perfectly that‘ Normal’ people will do monstrous things as circumstances demand for the sake of surviving a real or perceived threat!
Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over His Creation from Jerusalem forever.
So much that I took from this movie in so many ways.
It's the best manual on how to do good in a world of evil
Thanks!...very informative
Didn't notice they were walking on tombstones either; thanks for pointing that out.
Thank you for this very timely video.
movie still brings out so many emotions! Which is a wonderful thing; we as humans should never forget such horrible events of our past…“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” W. C.
Thank you so much for making this video! You guys are the best!
I saw this in the cinema, by the end just about everyone was crying. It's a magnificent film but I can never watch it again.