SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) Movie Reaction | First Time Watch | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley

When the real people walk with the actors who were playing them, that’s probably one of the greatest movie ending ever

Kristen is the first reactor whom I've seen who knows there's a book, and who's actually read the book.

It's crazy that Ralph Fiennes didn't win an Oscar for this

Spielberg would be so down after a day of filming that he would get back to where he was staying and call Robin Williams and ask him to just make him laugh for about an hour.

Amon Goeth was truly a demon in human form so much so that even the nazi party found his actions too disturbing and considering what they did to people shows how evil he was. So they had him committed to the sanatorium (mental hospital) you see at the end where the allieds found him and served justice. Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth took time in between takes to comfort the Schindler Jews on set as his likeness, performance and mannerisms were so much like him it caused panic attacks in some. Amon Goeth daughter put all this out of her life and married an African gentleman eventually having their own daughter. Then one day the little girl comes home from school and kept talking about this evil man Goeth as they had watched the movie at school to learn more about it. It was then that her mother sat her down telling her it was her grandfather and learning about everything. She eventually wrote a book about the whole situation and her families history. Its called my grandfather would have killed me. Its a good book.

Liam Neeson, Ralph Feinnes and Ben Kingsley are superb in this movie.

One of the producers of Schindler's List, Branko Lustig, survived Auschwitz, because (according to his own words) "one of the Nazi guards was from my (Lustig's) hometown Osijek (Eastern Croatia)." Lustig's father was the maitre 'd in Osijek's fanciest hotel, and the Nazi (actually a Croatian volunteer from the so-called Ustasha units) heard the eleven-year-old Lustig screaming and calling his parents in Croatian, when they got separated at the so-called selection. (Those under age 16 were immediately sent to the gas chambers). The guard approached Lustig, and when he heard who the boy was, and who his parents were, remembered his own brother's wedding reception in the very same hotel. He hid the boy under his coat and took him to "Block 24a" (the building used as a brothell for the officers). There, the women managed to keep Lustig hidden behind a cupboard, but as he remembered: "I heard it all, day and night, but I didn't care. All I wanted is to live!" When the Russians approached, he was moved with the remaining prisoners to Bergen-Belsen. Though the Nazis began executing the weak and the ill the moment they arrived in Belsen, Lustig survived only because the British troops surprised everyone with playing bagpipes. Lustig said in the same interview: "I was so hungry, so weak, so desperate, that I knew I would be dead that day. And when I heard bagpipes playing from afar, I was certain the Angel of Death came for me."

I feel free to recite the comment i wrote for another Schindler's List reaction: Greetings from Germany and first of all congrats for makig it through this. I've watched this movie first at highschool and i agree that this is a masterpiece everyone should watch despite or even because of all of the disussion about it. I don't want to focus on the topic if one should or could display such horrors on screen. I think they did a good and respectful job on the matter of adapting and interpreting the holocaust for cinematic purpose. Despite that i can't unsee a typical american approach to it, very focused on heroism and shock value. I feel this makes it easy to put it aside as horrors for the sake of emotional shock and nothing that actually happend millions of times in a similar form. It is so essential to acknowledge that there weren't villains that spawned out of nothing and disappeared after but rather that this was the culmination of decades of spreading hate, indoctrination and propaganda of a sick ideology that played on the deepest and darkest parts of human identity. When i watch what happens today all over the world and how people, especially americans, respond to the history of my country i'm often sad and disappointed. There is so little knowledge about the reasons and methods how someone like Hitler came into a position of power. It is always the same playbook authoritarians all over the world used and use to this day. And this movie a prime example where things can lead to and what humans are capable of doing to each other when we don't keep a close look and always remember the darkest parts of our history. ps. I found it very difficult to express all my thoughts in a short comment, on top commenting about this stuff in english so feel free to keep any mistake for yourself.

People already commented about Göth.... However his daugther never knew her father (she was born in 1944) and her mother never told her, what his "job" was. But she always described his manorisms and how he presented himself. So when this moie came to german cinemas, his daugther said (meaning) "When Ralph Finnes shows up, before we lern who he is, I knew from the first image, that was my dad. The way my mom described him, i knew." Shortly after the film, she sat in a bar and a jewish guy was talking about this film. She said that they got along pretty good and that he shared his families story, but when he asked, why she watched it and said "to lern about my family too" he was like "Oh who was your father?" She said "Göth" and he left.

After he pardons the boy in the bathroom he noticed dirt in his finger nail which reminds him of how he sees the Jews. Not many people noticed this when watching but it's a good piece of writing.