Schindler’s List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 non-fiction novel Schindlers Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days in 1993. It premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D. C. and was released in the United States on December 15, 1993.
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Schindler’s List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 non-fiction novel Schindlers Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days in 1993. It was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, and won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindling’s List 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time. It premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D. C. and was released in the United States on December 15, 1993. Often listed among the greatest films ever made, the film received international acclaim from critics for its tone, direction, performances and atmosphere; it was also a box office success, earning USD 322 million worldwide on a USD 22 million budget. It has been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004 and is considered one of the most important films in the history of American cinema. The movie was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray on November 25, 2013.
The DVD version of the film is available for the first time on the 25th anniversary of the release of the first film. It will also be released on DVD on December 25, 2014, to coincide with the 50th birthday of the movie’s director, Steven Spielberg, and the 20th anniversary of the book’s publication. The book was published by Simon & Schuster, a division of U.S. publisher Simon &Schuster, and is published by Random House, Inc. (USA). The book is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Spanish. The soundtrack was recorded by John Williams, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main theme for the film. The score was written by Itzak Stern, a local Jewish official who has contacts with black marketeers and the Jewish business community. The music was composed by Itazak Stern and the film was released by Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, on November 29, 1994, and released on December 30, 1995, and December 31, 1995. The cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to create a sense of timelessness. The composer composed the score for the movie in black and white, and it was recorded in black-and-white, in color, and in Technicolor, in black & white, in colour, in blue and white and in green and white. It stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, and Ben Kingley.
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