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Schindler's List opens at the Shaw Ridge MGM on 4 March requirements
Anybody expecting to find the tricks Windows
and block busting spectacle so often Doors Soffits
delivered by Steven Spielberg in
his new film Schindler's List will be Fascias, etc.
in for a shock. The director who has
made more money than any other, Also carpentry
but has been denied an Oscar for & joinery
his considerable talents, looks as if
he will sweep the awards with his Ring Nathan on
depiction of the relentless Nazi
persecution of Jews before and 430279
during the second world war.
Closely following Thomas
Keneally's Booker Prize-winning
documentary novel, filmed in stark
black and white, the 3'4 hours epic
tells the story of how flamboyant
German businessman Oskar
Schindler profits from supplying the
A scene from Schindler's List where Oskar Schindler argues with an
German military from his enamel
ware business confiscated from its SS guard trying keep one of his worker's children at the Auschwitz
Jewish owners. death camp
As opposition to the bureaucratic The film contrasts Schindler Goeth remains convinced of
system and barbaric behaviour, (Liam Neeson) with Amon Goeth Schindler's friendship though
intent on extermination of the entire (Ralph Fiennes), the demonic, increasingly confused by his
race grows within him, he spends corrupt SS commander of the obsession with caring for those who W4'IAT are
his amassed fortune in bribes to Plaszow forced labour camp. will soon be dead. uulIu I
bring comfort to Jews in prison Schindler, Nazi party member, Nazis have appeared before in Satur1ay
camps and laterto buy the safety of gambler, womaniser, profiteer and Spielberg's films as comic buffoons, uuu
his 1,100 Jewish workers from the black market trader, takes ever but here the regime is shown for 1orNiNgs
Auschwitz gas chambers. greater risks as he turns from what it was - sleazy, brutal, corrupt
The focus of the film is almost exploiter of cheap Jewish labour to and utterly despicable. made forI
entirely on the Polish city of Cracow become a saviour of Jewish lives, Central to the film is ltzak Stern
where Schindler set up his business. Goeth is a maniac who takes (Ben Kingsley), Schindler's Jewish uuuuu..uuuu.uuul The Saturday
It was filmed close to where the delight in torturing and killing accountant who helps him establish morning Film Club
actual events took place. prisoners at the slightest and often the profitable business and
Some understanding of the totally irrational opportunity. encourages him to employ Jews in at the MGM
history involved is needed as there Both like the good things in life, his factory. Later they work tog ether Cinema, Swindon
is little explanation of the Nazi the smart clothes, fine brandy and to draw up the list of prisoners to be of course!
psychology and motivation which a succession of mistresses. From bought and saved.
eventually destroyed six million similar backgrounds, their paths Schindler's List portrays both the We have a great
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