Steven Spielberg's multi-Oscar-winning drama, based on the novel by Thomas KeneaIly, starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
In 1939, Austrian businessman Oskar Schindler, a Gentile, comes to Krakow with the idea of getting rich quickly by using cheap Jewish labour in his factory supplying the German war effort. As persecution of Jews spreads throughout Europe, Schindler, although a close associate of SS officers, finds it worth his while to protect his workers from the escalating evil around him.
(This screening is followed by an interview with director Steven Spielberg and a profile of Schindler the hero.)
(1993, 15) (Black and white and colour)
See Films: pp 68-79
Production on an epic scale: page 63