Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: a major work of cinema, quite simply.
In the list of great classics of the seventh art, this major work figures very well. Released in theaters in 1994, Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg is a must-see, a necessary film that will shake you up.
Directed by Spielberg who was morally supported on the set by Robin Williams, Schindler’s List is the evocation of the war years of Oskar Schindler, son of an industrialist of Austrian origin who returned to Krakow in 1939 with the German troops .
Throughout the conflict, Schindler protected Jews by making them work in his factory. In 1944, he saved eight hundred men and three hundred women from the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Schindler’s List was filmed between March and May 1993 in the Kazimierz district of Krakow. Steven Spielberg not having had permission to install his cameras in the Auschwitz camp and the Plaszow labor camp not being usable for the purposes of the film, the death camp scenes were therefore filmed outside doors, on a board reconstructing the camp identically. Certain scenes of the film were also filmed on the real locations of the story such as Schindler’s apartment or the prison.
Seven Oscars and no salary for Spielberg
Worldwide acclaimed, Schindler’s List received twelve nominations at the 1994 Academy Awards, winning seven statuettes including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Music. This powerful work which borders on perfection has achieved great public success with nearly 2.7 million spectators in French cinemas.
It will be noted that Steven Spielberg refused to receive a salary to stage Schindler’s List. Following the success of the film, the American created the Foundation for the Visual History of Survivors of the Shoah, a non-profit organization whose function is to bring together archives of filmed testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and preserve their history in order to ensure the sustainability of collective memory.
Tonight on Paris Première at 9 p.m.
Our Give Me Five show dedicated to “Schindler’s List”: