Film presentation

The original title is Schindler‘s List, was produced by Steven Spielberg in the United States in 1993. This film is first appeared in Washington november 30, 1993 and was spread throughout the United States December 15, 1993.

It will be released in French as March 2, 1994. Schindler’s List is a dramatic film with a duration of 3 hours 15 minutes, produced by Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg and Lew Rywin. The music is played by John Williams and Billie Holiday (song God Bless the Child), Jean-Sébastien Bach (English Suite No. 2 in A minor), Oyfn pripetchik an old Yiddish song is the theme of the little girl in the red cloak, at the end of the film, the song « Yerushalaim shel zahav » by Naomi Shemer. The character is played by Oskar Schindler Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes Amon Goeth by Itzhak Stern and Ben Kingsley.

Director

Steven Spielberg was born December 18, 1946 into a Jewish family. Younger he was passionate about cinema, from the age of 12 he turns self in his early films. His parents divorced in 1964 which affected him deeply. This separation influence to become a filmmaker.

After his first failure in 1979, Steven Spielberg strongly registered in the cinema of the 80s with first of the trilogy of the adventurer Indiana Jones, but also and especially with the history of the extraterrestrial ET (1982).

Year 90 success of Spielberg also for alternating the most incredible movies (with for example the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and The Lost World) and films whose subjects particularly affect the most, like Schindler’s List, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, the film tells how Oscar Schindler, German industrialist who is part of the Nazi party, saved more than one billion people in concentration camps and extermination. This film ranks the eighth largest in film history film in the top 100 in 2007. Playing on the sobriety of black and white and emotional passages, Schindler’s List won several awards seven Oscars among others, including Best Film and Best Director with the filmmaker had been in private by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He produced many successful films (Poltergeist, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit or the Men in Black trilogy and Transformers). Spielberg is often cited as the best representative of the Hollywood film industry.

He created the foundation Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, whose goal is to collect the testimonies of all Holocaust survivors and disseminate to younger, in order to participate in the duty of memory to prevent another genocide.

Spielberg has received three Oscars: one for best film (in 1994) and two for Best Director (1994 and 1999). He also chairs the jury of the 5th International Fantastic Film Festival of Avoriaz in 1977, and that of the 66th Cannes Film Festival in 2013.

Adélie Terrier