03. September 2013

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg’s multiple-award winning masterpiece (7 Oscars and many other awards) Schindler’s List tells the fact-based story of industrial tycoon Oskar Schindler. He is a bon vivant and a member of the Nazi Party. After the occupation of Poland, Schindler’s good contacts to SS officials allow him to take over an enamel factory that employs mainly Jews.The confrontation with an ever growing level of inhumanity as well as the influence of his book-keeper Itzhak Stern change Schindler. He watches in horror as sadistic SS Obersturmführer Amon Göth has the Kraków Ghetto ‘cleared’. Together with Stern, he starts writing a list of names to declare the Jews on the list as his workers and thus to save these people from certain death in Auschwitz.The German magazine Der Spiegel wrote about the critically and publically acclaimed black-and-white drama: ‘Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust drama moves people and gets them moving. It leaves its audience speechless and unsettled.’ Almost 20 years ago FAZ’s Frank Schirrmacher wrote: ‘Everyone should see this film,” and the President of the United States Bill Clinton urged the entire nation to ‘Go see it!’ Schindler’s List was made to overcome oblivion. The LET’S CEE Film Festival is proud to make its own contribution and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Schindler’s List by including one of the best films of the 20th century in our general programme, as well as our school cinema. Go see it!