@@ruly8153 lol idk if i believe you but your dad is awesome. any BS he got for telling the truth about the emotions he felt after his friend got raped and how he was honest about it are idiots. he was a human and willing to admit it. that showed courage. shout out to him
A memorial of remembrance for them. Selah higgaion I found it very hard watching this movie. I had to pause many times......I couldn't stop crying. It makes you shut up and remember where we were 86 years ago.
I love this movie in part because it shows Schindler not as a plaster saint but as a lazy, cigarette-smoking, boozing, womanizing wise guy who loved to make money but then discovered he was a better man than he knew; saints are also sinners--otherwise they're not human--
not movie related but I'd like to know why your part in your comment, "...otherwise they're not human" has got a line through it, as if someone corrected your post...or did you do this?
@@A_29886 Your comment needs to be put up in lights on a billboard. "Redemption arc." That's the perfect phrase. Like Severus Snape in the Harry Potter stories, working undercover for Dumbledore, while coming off like a Death Eater...only the story of Oskar Schindler is real.
Schindler's List is by far one or probably the best Holocaust related motion picture ever created. Steven Spielberg along with the entire cast did a superb job to say the least. Ralph Fiennes as the sadistic and evil Amon Goeth should have received an Oscar in my opinion. Everything about that film was remarkable. The fact that it was film in black and white it gave it a more realistic look, the soundtrack was stupendous , the locations where the scenes were filmed, the very end of the movie when the actors are walking with the real life survivors and they are placing stones on Oskar Schindler's grave is just an amazing scene. Holding your tears as you watch this amazing film it's almost an impossibility. I have seen this movie several times and I still can not contain my tears. Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley and of course Steven Spielberg: if there is one film these four men will always be remembered for it would have to be Schindler's List. This movie depicts the horrors of war and how cruel, evil and inhumane humanity can be. Oskar Schindler was no saint but he risked his life to save others and that is something The Almighty will take into account on the day of judgement. I would like to congratulate every single person that was involved in the making of this film. God bless you all and may The Almighty continue to bless His Chosen people The Jewish people.
This movie should be mandatory viewing in every U.S. high school. I wish Spielberg would make a film about Mila 18, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. it would be superb, or a film about Janusz Corczak a true saint that went to his death, even though he wasn't Jewish, with his 192 orphaned children at the Treblinka death camp.
A movie has been made about Warsaw ghetto--the wall. Book by John Hersey--not saying another could not be made but it would have to be a really good one and take different tack.
I saw the movie yesterday for the first time after trying so hard to watch it because it's heartbreaking and I must say it is truly one of the greatest movies ever made.
Steven hit the nail on the head when talking about Germans being blamed and having the need to apologise for something they didn't do. Even being part German, I was bullied by Poles and Slavs because of this and I would apologise as if I did it. My German side had absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis and I was being put down as if they were. No matter how much I condemned the Nazi ideology, I still lost friends. Those who accepted me for me were the Jews and I respect them for that. Getting my Master's degree in Holocaust Studies in order to become a docent at a Holocaust museum is my goal. I don't want these people to be forgotten or have someone hate them for being Jewish. If anyone would ask me why, a person with German blood, would help Jews, my answer is simple: They were kind to me when no one else was.
Sean Pultz It seemed like it was almost impossible to survive. If you were Jewish, you were killed. If you were homosexual, a gypsy, Serbian, Slovenian, half German mixed with something else, you were killed. What was also horrible was that if you were not for the Final Solution and were not a slave to Hitler, you were killed. Questioning meant disobedience, which meant not being true to the ''plan.'' Objections resulted in murder. There was just no escaping any of it.
Good points! We should also remember that Hitler Nazi machine murdered so many disabled people, elderly and those Nazi called "useless eaters" who were German as well. In fact, before they invented the Nazi gas chambers they were murdering the disabled in vans with the exhaust being pumped into the vehicle.
If you loose people that have a problem where you were born in whichever part of the world, its better to stay away from them anyway. They dont understand the simplicity that being born is not something you have chosen. What does it matter if you are german, french, dutch, african etc? The history that country has is totally unconnected to your event of being born. That is also why i dont get proudness. Proudness of what? That your country did things before you were there? How is that even connected to you?
I came here to see how deep Steven's understanding is to have made such a movie and found myself unable to follow him all the way, because his depth is obviously greater than my own
Тhis movie is now availaaаbleee tо watch heeеre => twitter.com/0bda0cd53e5f48b9a/status/795841355893252096 Stеvеn Spielbеeerg talks about Sсhindler s List in 17 minute 1994 interviеw
Hahaha Steven Spielberg's genes are so specual that he picks up a assistant Heritage Films Poland for Schindler's List, puts him on concentration camp as a nameless assitant for all time to come!
I'm glad that Spielberg towards the end of this pointed out the similarities of Bosnia and the Holocaust. Because genocide shouldn't have to be the numbers of who are killed in mass. But the act itself.
Thanks for sharing the dutch version! It was broadcasted on the 4th of May 1994 because on that specific day the whole country remembers the loss of lives during wars (WWII in specific). Every year on the 4th of May at 20:00 hrs everybody is showing their respect with being silent for two minutes. Cars stop on roads, TV-stations are tuned into memorial monuments, Amsterdam is silent...no phone, no radio, nothing, just to be aware of the value of freedom. That's why the next day, 5th of May, is an holiday. A day to celebrate freedom because Holland was liberated on the 5th of May 1945. Festivals everywhere to realise that it is amazing to be able to live together.
I don’t know how Spielberg managed to film those scenes. I’ve only seen the film once and oh my goodness it’s never left me. Chilling, devastating and heartbreaking doesn’t cover the range of emotions I felt. It disturbs because you can’t fathom the pure evil that humans are capable of.
That’s what makes the story of Oskar Schindler so great. You can start out not being so great, but you can do good things if you’re willing to do the work.
Sidhartha Bhagat i think this is the best movie he has directed but i find it difficult to watch many times but of the subject matter and how well he recreated the feeling of being there the horror of that time.A master filmaker.A great movie.
Ok then, I will be the first to comment :-) It's astounding as to how Spielberg was able to distance himself emotionally from the subject matter and deliver a masterpiece. I watch this film every winter and it numbs me because I can't understand that part of human nature that would do this.
I read it was a very difficult experience for him, there was scenes he couldn't film himself because he would constantly break down in tears. He had to call Robin Williams to cheer him and up and watched episodes of Seinfeld during filming
He was going to film it in '83 but it was too emotional for him so he waited and did it in '94. Robin Williams came onto the set to tell jokes and watch seinfeld with him and some of the cast because of just how depressing it all was. Mila Pfefferberg, a schindler jew came onto the set and was shaking the minute she saw Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth in the movie). I find it interesting because the movie itself is very emotional, and while filming it would have been very difficult. Which is why everyone in the movie deserves an oscar, they played their roles so perfectly.
OK. Let me put it this way. I'm Croatian and in the WW2 croatian Ustasha regime did horrible thngs to Serbs (just like nazis did to Jews and to many others)) and in the 90's Miloshevich regime did horrible things to Croatians (and many other nations too). So... is any nation immune to doing atrocities? Nope. Any politics pure and humane? Nope. Fact is it never stopped and it tells how weak we are as humans at opposing governements at doing such dreadful things and how manipulated we are as their voters.
Most directors don't talk about the (negative) history of the person they make a film about like steven Spielberg. It's pretty cool he did (does) his research, instead of just looking at the positive elements of a historical figure like other directors.
I got teary eyes after watching the movie. I was very young when this was showed in cinema. I didnt understand what the movie was about. Now that im old enough I realized that I needed tissues to wipe away the tears. This movie will stay with me as one of the greatest film ever made.
When listening to the part of the interview where Spielberg makes reference to his own prejudices, when seeing the German actors in SS uniforms, I can help but think of today's race-related problems in the US, where many African-Americans believe they should be given reparations for their ancestors who were enslaved. Spielberg says that the young German actors, "should never be blamed and should never have fingers pointed at them for something that they weren't around to stop." Likewise, Americans of today should not be blamed (and punished) for the sins that came before them, which they were not around to stop.
Reparations could have been paid to slaves and their children in the 19th century, but it is far too late now. Money is not the problem. People taking on narrow group identities and accusing others of hating their groups is the problem. Nobody says, "I'm an American," or even "I'm a human being"---it's "I'm black," "I'm Latino," "I'm gay," "You're a racist," "You're homophobic," and on and on and on. Everyone is a victim; even Christians like to imagine they're a persecuted minority. It's all stupid nonsense, but you won't find anyone in this country with the courage to stand up and say so.
Cry me a river. Blacks in America are still subject to plenty of injustice. Which is not to say that genuine progress hasn't been made amongst race relations. Germans have dealt with the holocaust to the overwhelming extent. America has not dealt with its historical failings. There is constant drum beating about American exceptionalism. Present day Americans will not be blamed the minute they become a normal country and deal with reality as it is.
Normally I never discuss on the internet but this comment is just so ignorant. It's obviously a prejudice to blame people for their ancestors. Plus I'd be fully on board if America really would have changed but afroamerican people still deal with the racism brought by the behavior of those ancestors. Besides you maybe don't know that but there is actually happening antisemitism in Germany to this day. A party with very right-extreme attitudes grow from day to day and calls out against all kind of minorities. And these are just two examples I'm aware of. There are definitely more all around the world. So it's definitely wrong to blame a whole group of people for certain actions but it's also wrong to say that people today have nothing to do with their ancestors.
@@hny_thinks I disagree. In the first place, assuming beings enter a body in this world only once, to assign blame to a person for something he hasn't done is unjust. In the second place, we do enter bodies in this world many times before we either attain complete liberation or we outgrow this realm. If we mistreat people in one life, we may be mistreated in our next. This is the way karma teaches. So, yes, a victim of continuous discrimination may well be unhappy about it, but that same person may have been the one enforcing the discrimination in her prior life.
Sorry but I can't argue with that because your point is not rational. It's based on your personal beliefs. And I say this as a spiritual person myself.
Hello everyone i am from Singapore i am coming 40 this year in august. Honestly the first time i discovered about this movie Schindler's list when i was 11 years old back in 1993 when it was released. I discovered Schindler's list when i read from the newspaper. I asked my mother about this movie my mother told me about this movie but she said "My dear girl u are still too young to watch this movie there maybe some things that u may not understand. When u are older and u are already experienced then u will understand the contents of this movie" and yes my mother is right. I just started watching Schindler's list. To be very honest with all the experiences that i gained both bad and good with the people i met what i really learned from this movie is about compassion determination equality generosity humanity kindness and reality. That is why this movie Schindler's list is still the talk in every house hold. I really appreciate what Steven Spielberg has done thank u very much.
I had the same thought actually... but I think the difference was the setting and mood as you correctly pointed out. He also mentioned that it botherd him so much that it were german actors who put on the uniforms. In Raiders those were americans.
Its hard to believe how many civilizations have persecuted the jews. Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, Ottomans, Crusaders, Germans, etc... I’ve never understood why. They are intelligent, hard working, successful, and they practice their religion in a way thats introspective and respective of other faiths.
It’s an incredible film but very, very hard to watch. I think it should be shown in school, just so kids today know this should never ever happen again.
I saw it in 10th grade, glad our history teacher made us watch it, even though it was hard at times. I learned that WW2 is a disastrous lesson as to what happens when we let our differences get in the way of reason.
Every filmmaker has that one film that is their most personal and greatest. Taxi Driver: Martin Scorsese Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee Edward Scissorhands: Tim Burton For Spielberg, it will always be Schindler's List.
Many thanks for sharing which gives a real insight of Spielbergs opinions on his monumental film. Greatful that he made the film, without it many people would never have known in detail what actually happened (the suffering and the atrocities). For me a hard film to watch which had me in tears many times but grateful that it gave me more insight to learn more about the history of it all.
I'm 60yrs old Jewish and my grandparents came from koretz Russia to Hamburg Germany and got to Liverpool England and got on the first voyage of the Mauritania ship.I grew up in lynnfield ma my both my real parents Jewish on the holidays Jewish my mother and my grandmother and other relatives one related was in auswitz and he told me he was a baker . i have a big family tree the Levine family thier is so much more in my mr.Barry Shulman.
A memorial for them. This movie was very hard to watch, I had to stop often. I could stop crying. Selah higgaion. It makes you shut up and stare remembering were we were 86 years ago.
Thank you for making this film. I remember in the late 80s my German teacher in high school, a good woman, spoke so reverently about the Fuhrer and how happy and unified they were. It made me sad.
Genocide - however it is being carried out - still exists! Be it African dictators, Middle-Eastern despots or powerful people in the 'civilised' world, Genocide is still a fact of life.......
Elizabeth Reign Castillo obviously you missed the entire point of the movie. Hatred breeds among us and that is how people like Hitler rise to power and people follow . It's still happening now and your comment only proves that
He blamed the Jews for their problems .. they were the weakest link... and they were so stupid and gullible that they fell for it... it’s amazing how they thought they were the superior race and yet so much ignorance
Ah darn Stephen made me cry again ! I been watching many videos about Oskar Schindler especially survivor testimony and I am an emotional mess . The final scene of movie when he was given the ring he wished he saved more , what an amazing man. God uses flawed people that’s in the Bible .
I am not a fan of Steven Spielberg. With that said, this interview is exceptional. Of the numerous moving/touching interview elements, this following one reminded me that regardless of how I feel about Steven, he is capable of a priceless empathy: The fact that Steven reflected that his experiences, while making the film, do not and cannot be compared to even a moment of the suffering that the Jewish people experienced during one of our species' worst moments in our history. I am in tears. 🌺
At the end Steven said there are 6000 descendants of Schindler jews but only 4000 descendants of jews from Poland. Which there were originally 4 million. So one person can make a difference. I also really liked the making of Jaws just this week on A+E. It's been awhile, I have to see that again.
If there are any servived ladies and gentlemen from the holocaust. PLEASE CONTACT ME. THANK YOU 🙏. SHALOME. This is the history they should teach in all schools. Thank you OSCAR SCHINDLER
When I get gangstalked by Nazis in grocery stores in Phuket, the Nazis have the Thai managers play the soundtrack to Schindler's List while I am surrounded and very Nazi-looking Europeans attack me using gang stalking tactics (which are dangerous and sometimes murder attempts have occurred). These movies depicting Jews as weak and Nazis as charming or benevolent, I have witnessed personally, are being used as a sort of training theme for this next generation of Nazis who want to remember the Shoah for "other" reasons, such as the real re-emergence of Nazism in Europe and indeed worldwide. The grim documentaries and movies revealing the genocide are being used as an aid to Nazi and genocidal sympathizers and are springboards for more of their smug reminders of Imperialistic "success" back in the Nazi era, which they want to emulate and bring back in the future. Additionally, I don't think the actors in the film Schindler's List could really epitomize the real players in this real-life drama involving Schindler's rescue atttempts, because I have this feeling that, for example, from photos I have seen of the real person of Isaak Stern reveal to my analysis (seeing his broad, glowing and happy face smiling into cameras) was that he was not a withdrawn and depressed silent type, but rather perhaps charming, engaging, and persuasive in that manner instead of withdrawn and morbidly reserved and fearful. I don't think such a personality could have engendered the sort of mutual respect of a Nazi German if he were so "weak" by German standards. There are many subtle psychological effects of these movies, and although it behooves Spielberg for making such a movie, I believe that there was a lot missing from the actual story that would have altered the relationship of Stern and Schindler (making Stern more of an active manipulator and charmer or even on a more equal footing with Schindler than what the film portrayed of a shrinking and fearful Stern under the collective thumbs of Schindler and Amon Goth).
When I was younger, my entire 4rth grade class and I had a field trip. It was to the theater to watch SCHINDLER'S LIST. After words, we all got a framed print out of the permission slip with all the parents signatures on it to bring home with us. One of the most important days of my life. How the times have changed.
Spielberg is the all-time greatest Director, by far. His only flaw is that he always seems to add a few unnecessary "cheesey" scenes to all his movies. So glad he didn't do that in this one.
Being German polish Jewish Irish and American decent I don’t blame any anyone who wasn’t born in that era I only blame the nazis that killed those ppl and yet I respect Oscar Schindler because he changed and saved over a thousand Jewish ppl he was smart he even was penniless at the end of the war doesn’t that say something about him we can all make a change we all have a choice
Thank you for your film,would you consider making a film about the war crimes trials. I think it would be a worthwhile film to make to reinforce justice,thank you. Martyn xxx
This is exactly whats called art, the one that touches everybodies soul,makes us cry or laugh...3 minutes of silece for all 2nd world war victims...Thanks God we never faced anything like that..Bless their hearts! And all of those who remind us about this!Brilliant👏
What I liken this movie to is visiting the Mütter museum in Philadelphia, Pa. it’s a medical oddity museum. That’s the easy part to process. In reality it’s “ oh, look, a dead fetus in a jar, and a dead fetus in a jar, and a dead fetus in a jar, and... yet another dead fetus in a jar followed by forty more just on that shelf. Then there are the skulls, and tumors, and plastinated corpses with no skin to show their nervous systems.. After a few hours you think “Wow, that was enlightening, but so emotionally draining.” Because a lay person can’t observe it as a medical museum. Its contents are just as horrid as “Schindler’s List”
At what age did people first watch the film? Or when do you guys think is an okay age to share with your kids? Just curious. My roommates parents watched it with her when she was 11 because they felt it was important and my other roommate wasn’t allowed to watch it until she was old enough to see R rated movies.
I personally feel that 11 is too young. You can still educate children without exposing them to the real horror. I was a very sensitive child and would have been traumatised by watching this film at that age. It still truly disturbed me when I saw it and I was a fully grown adult. Children should be protected by certain things until they're emotionally mature and developed enough to understand
What a great movie for all the wrong reasons, i have only watched it the once and it blow me away, i dread to think what it must of been like for the Jewish people trying to servive each day and the cruelty that was inflicted on them, it's such sad movie but parts of the movie make you smile, that must sound so strange, it's a piece of world history that the human race should be ashamed of
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Steven Spielberg chose a perfect actor to be Schindler..
Angela Hagerman Agreed!
Angela Hagerman
He’s my dad btw
@@ruly8153 your dad is liam neesen ?
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Yep I’m Dan
@@ruly8153 lol idk if i believe you but your dad is awesome. any BS he got for telling the truth about the emotions he felt after his friend got raped and how he was honest about it are idiots. he was a human and willing to admit it. that showed courage. shout out to him
Schindler's List, in my opinion, was Spielberg's masterpiece. Thank you for sharing this interview.
@Rishi jurassic park very good, but no where near as powerful
A memorial of remembrance for them. Selah higgaion
I found it very hard watching this movie. I had to pause many times......I couldn't stop crying. It makes you shut up and remember where we were 86 years ago.
That and Saving Private Ryan.
I love many of Spielberg's movies.. but this will always be his greatest film.
I agree, :-)
indiana jones crystal skull was his greatest
tiehut I think this is his greatest.
Indeed. If this were his only film, he would still be enshrined in Hollywood history as one of its greatest directors.
This movie is Absolute Genius
I love this movie in part because it shows Schindler not as a plaster saint but as a lazy, cigarette-smoking, boozing, womanizing wise guy who loved to make money but then discovered he was a better man than he knew; saints are also sinners--otherwise they're not human--
not movie related but I'd like to know why your part in your comment, "...otherwise they're not human" has got a line through it, as if someone corrected your post...or did you do this?
suzanne oneill he had his problems but want he did was wonderful for those on the list. God bless him
suzanne oneill Nothing wrong with smoking, boozing or having sex with people
Omg! It's as if it's called a redemption ark and also called a heroes journey. It's as if that's what most good movies are based around
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Your comment needs to be put up in lights on a billboard. "Redemption arc." That's the perfect phrase. Like Severus Snape in the Harry Potter stories, working undercover for Dumbledore, while coming off like a Death Eater...only the story of Oskar Schindler is real.
Schindler's List is by far one or probably the best Holocaust related motion picture ever created. Steven Spielberg along with the entire cast did a superb job to say the least. Ralph Fiennes as the sadistic and evil Amon Goeth should have received an Oscar in my opinion. Everything about that film was remarkable. The fact that it was film in black and white it gave it a more realistic look, the soundtrack was stupendous , the locations where the scenes were filmed, the very end of the movie when the actors are walking with the real life survivors and they are placing stones on Oskar Schindler's grave is just an amazing scene. Holding your tears as you watch this amazing film it's almost an impossibility. I have seen this movie several times and I still can not contain my tears. Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley and of course Steven Spielberg: if there is one film these four men will always be remembered for it would have to be Schindler's List. This movie depicts the horrors of war and how cruel, evil and inhumane humanity can be. Oskar Schindler was no saint but he risked his life to save others and that is something The Almighty will take into account on the day of judgement. I would like to congratulate every single person that was involved in the making of this film. God bless you all and may The Almighty continue to bless His Chosen people The Jewish people.
This movie should be mandatory viewing in every U.S. high school. I wish Spielberg would make a film about Mila 18, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. it would be superb, or a film about Janusz Corczak a true saint that went to his death, even though he wasn't Jewish, with his 192 orphaned children at the Treblinka death camp.
Not only in US but also in Europa
A movie has been made about Warsaw ghetto--the wall. Book by John Hersey--not saying another could not be made but it would have to be a really good one and take different tack.
I saw the movie yesterday for the first time after trying so hard to watch it because it's heartbreaking and I must say it is truly one of the greatest movies ever made.
Steven hit the nail on the head when talking about Germans being blamed and having the need to apologise for something they didn't do. Even being part German, I was bullied by Poles and Slavs because of this and I would apologise as if I did it. My German side had absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis and I was being put down as if they were.
No matter how much I condemned the Nazi ideology, I still lost friends. Those who accepted me for me were the Jews and I respect them for that. Getting my Master's degree in Holocaust Studies in order to become a docent at a Holocaust museum is my goal. I don't want these people to be forgotten or have someone hate them for being Jewish. If anyone would ask me why, a person with German blood, would help Jews, my answer is simple: They were kind to me when no one else was.
ᏰᏗşιℓ best response ever 😀
Sean Pultz It seemed like it was almost impossible to survive. If you were Jewish, you were killed. If you were homosexual, a gypsy, Serbian, Slovenian, half German mixed with something else, you were killed. What was also horrible was that if you were not for the Final Solution and were not a slave to Hitler, you were killed.
Questioning meant disobedience, which meant not being true to the ''plan.'' Objections resulted in murder. There was just no escaping any of it.
You should just stop after you said "I'm sorry." Give the guy a break.
Good points! We should also remember that Hitler Nazi machine murdered so many disabled people, elderly and those Nazi called "useless eaters" who were German as well. In fact, before they invented the Nazi gas chambers they were murdering the disabled in vans with the exhaust being pumped into the vehicle.
If you loose people that have a problem where you were born in whichever part of the world, its better to stay away from them anyway. They dont understand the simplicity that being born is not something you have chosen. What does it matter if you are german, french, dutch, african etc? The history that country has is totally unconnected to your event of being born.
That is also why i dont get proudness. Proudness of what? That your country did things before you were there? How is that even connected to you?
I came here to see how deep Steven's understanding is to have made such a movie and found myself unable to follow him all the way, because his depth is obviously greater than my own
Great film by a genius director.
Тhis movie is now availaaаbleee tо watch heeеre => twitter.com/0bda0cd53e5f48b9a/status/795841355893252096 Stеvеn Spielbеeerg talks about Sсhindler s List in 17 minute 1994 interviеw
joce sta same👍
@thehitchrules
Keep that with you! Always!
Nex Wex there is no book called schindler's list
Hahaha Steven Spielberg's genes are so specual that he picks up a assistant Heritage Films Poland for Schindler's List, puts him on concentration camp as a nameless assitant for all time to come!
The casting was phenomenal.......
I'm glad that Spielberg towards the end of this pointed out the similarities of Bosnia and the Holocaust. Because genocide shouldn't have to be the numbers of who are killed in mass. But the act itself.
True. Deaths are ugly, but the intent is uglier.
Thanks for sharing the dutch version! It was broadcasted on the 4th of May 1994 because on that specific day the whole country remembers the loss of lives during wars (WWII in specific). Every year on the 4th of May at 20:00 hrs everybody is showing their respect with being silent for two minutes.
Cars stop on roads, TV-stations are tuned into memorial monuments, Amsterdam is silent...no phone, no radio, nothing, just to be aware of the value of freedom.
That's why the next day, 5th of May, is an holiday. A day to celebrate freedom because Holland was liberated on the 5th of May 1945.
Festivals everywhere to realise that it is amazing to be able to live together.
Liam Neeson was amazing
Great interview. The story about the German and Jewish extras bonding made me want to cry as well.
I don’t know how Spielberg managed to film those scenes. I’ve only seen the film once and oh my goodness it’s never left me. Chilling, devastating and heartbreaking doesn’t cover the range of emotions I felt. It disturbs because you can’t fathom the pure evil that humans are capable of.
He also was filming another movie at the same time and spoke about quitting it altogether. He is a genius and has empathy, which not many geniuses do.
This film was such a brilliant masterpiece!
16:23 "You don't have to be a saint to save the world." I love when he said that.
Yet people vilify trump for the same behavior
That’s what makes the story of Oskar Schindler so great. You can start out not being so great, but you can do good things if you’re willing to do the work.
It's great how informed he is about this part of history.
this is one of the best movies ever made. i cant believe that talking about this doesn't make steven cry himself!
He did cry often during the making filming scenes. He even left bc he could not watch some scenes.
+anfr afterall a movie like this can make anyone cry
Sidhartha Bhagat i think this is the best movie he has directed but i find it difficult to watch many times but of the subject matter and how well he recreated the feeling of being there the horror of that time.A master filmaker.A great movie.
Ok then, I will be the first to comment :-)
It's astounding as to how Spielberg was able to distance himself emotionally from the subject matter and deliver a masterpiece. I watch this film every winter and it numbs me because I can't understand that part of human nature that would do this.
I read it was a very difficult experience for him, there was scenes he couldn't film himself because he would constantly break down in tears. He had to call Robin Williams to cheer him and up and watched episodes of Seinfeld during filming
He was going to film it in '83 but it was too emotional for him so he waited and did it in '94. Robin Williams came onto the set to tell jokes and watch seinfeld with him and some of the cast because of just how depressing it all was. Mila Pfefferberg, a schindler jew came onto the set and was shaking the minute she saw Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth in the movie). I find it interesting because the movie itself is very emotional, and while filming it would have been very difficult. Which is why everyone in the movie deserves an oscar, they played their roles so perfectly.
OK. Let me put it this way. I'm Croatian and in the WW2 croatian Ustasha regime did horrible thngs to Serbs (just like nazis did to Jews and to many others)) and in the 90's Miloshevich regime did horrible things to Croatians (and many other nations too). So... is any nation immune to doing atrocities? Nope. Any politics pure and humane? Nope. Fact is it never stopped and it tells how weak we are as humans at opposing governements at doing such dreadful things and how manipulated we are as their voters.
you're right, it is not understandable because it didn't happen that way
How do you know all this? its very interesting!
This film bought me to tears and I cried like a fuckin baby. Big fuckin baby!
Jane Hibberd Not antisemetic. But some of the "facts" they give is wrong. Movies from Spielberg are fictitious , he is not a historian
I cried like a baby too. It was an incredible film.
The best movies do that.
being polish and having a great grandmother that was able to escape poland this movie means so much .Thank you for making it
Most directors don't talk about the (negative) history of the person they make a film about like steven Spielberg. It's pretty cool he did (does) his research, instead of just looking at the positive elements of a historical figure like other directors.
I got teary eyes after watching the movie. I was very young when this was showed in cinema. I didnt understand what the movie was about. Now that im old enough I realized that I needed tissues to wipe away the tears. This movie will stay with me as one of the greatest film ever made.
Same here. I remember I liked it but watching it now after 20 years had a much bigger impact
Steven, thank you for casting Ralph Fiennes!!
Perfect casting.
When listening to the part of the interview where Spielberg makes reference to his own prejudices, when seeing the German actors in SS uniforms, I can help but think of today's race-related problems in the US, where many African-Americans believe they should be given reparations for their ancestors who were enslaved. Spielberg says that the young German actors, "should never be blamed and should never have fingers pointed at them for something that they weren't around to stop." Likewise, Americans of today should not be blamed (and punished) for the sins that came before them, which they were not around to stop.
Reparations could have been paid to slaves and their children in the 19th century, but it is far too late now. Money is not the problem. People taking on narrow group identities and accusing others of hating their groups is the problem. Nobody says, "I'm an American," or even "I'm a human being"---it's "I'm black," "I'm Latino," "I'm gay," "You're a racist," "You're homophobic," and on and on and on. Everyone is a victim; even Christians like to imagine they're a persecuted minority. It's all stupid nonsense, but you won't find anyone in this country with the courage to stand up and say so.
Cry me a river. Blacks in America are still subject to plenty of injustice. Which is not to say that genuine progress hasn't been made amongst race relations. Germans have dealt with the holocaust to the overwhelming extent. America has not dealt with its historical failings. There is constant drum beating about American exceptionalism. Present day Americans will not be blamed the minute they become a normal country and deal with reality as it is.
Normally I never discuss on the internet but this comment is just so ignorant. It's obviously a prejudice to blame people for their ancestors. Plus I'd be fully on board if America really would have changed but afroamerican people still deal with the racism brought by the behavior of those ancestors.
Besides you maybe don't know that but there is actually happening antisemitism in Germany to this day. A party with very right-extreme attitudes grow from day to day and calls out against all kind of minorities. And these are just two examples I'm aware of. There are definitely more all around the world.
So it's definitely wrong to blame a whole group of people for certain actions but it's also wrong to say that people today have nothing to do with their ancestors.
@@hny_thinks I disagree. In the first place, assuming beings enter a body in this world only once, to assign blame to a person for something he hasn't done is unjust. In the second place, we do enter bodies in this world many times before we either attain complete liberation or we outgrow this realm. If we mistreat people in one life, we may be mistreated in our next. This is the way karma teaches. So, yes, a victim of continuous discrimination may well be unhappy about it, but that same person may have been the one enforcing the discrimination in her prior life.
Sorry but I can't argue with that because your point is not rational. It's based on your personal beliefs. And I say this as a spiritual person myself.
Hello everyone i am from Singapore i am coming 40 this year in august. Honestly the first time i discovered about this movie Schindler's list when i was 11 years old back in 1993 when it was released. I discovered Schindler's list when i read from the newspaper. I asked my mother about this movie my mother told me about this movie but she said "My dear girl u are still too young to watch this movie there maybe some things that u may not understand. When u are older and u are already experienced then u will understand the contents of this movie" and yes my mother is right. I just started watching Schindler's list. To be very honest with all the experiences that i gained both bad and good with the people i met what i really learned from this movie is about compassion determination equality generosity humanity kindness and reality. That is why this movie Schindler's list is still the talk in every house hold. I really appreciate what Steven Spielberg has done thank u very much.
He almost talked Scorsese into directing this but Marty didn’t feel right about it and gave it right back to Spielberg.
Would be very interesting seeing a Scorsese version seeing as a lot of his films are about the ugly side of humans. Same for Kubrick.
He's an incredible director and this is an incredible film🎥📼
It's a story Spielberg needed to tell
i have tears in my eyes i need to stop right now...
Steven Spielberg is the best directors Schindlers List is beautiful writing by Thomas Kennely it's a great screenplay by Steven Zallian
I wonder if Spielberg felt the same way about the uniforms in raiders and last crusade? Probably not, this movie is much more tragic and realistic
I had the same thought actually... but I think the difference was the setting and mood as you correctly pointed out. He also mentioned that it botherd him so much that it were german actors who put on the uniforms. In Raiders those were americans.
Thank you, Mr. Spielberg. You have brought light into the world.
This movie changed my life,i watch it at least once a year,like he says this movie is to informed us!
He dedicated it to his mother the film😎
This was the best movie that was ever made. Because if we don't remember the past we are confirmed to repeat the future.
Its hard to believe how many civilizations have persecuted the jews. Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, Ottomans, Crusaders, Germans, etc... I’ve never understood why. They are intelligent, hard working, successful, and they practice their religion in a way thats introspective and respective of other faiths.
It’s an incredible film but very, very hard to watch. I think it should be shown in school, just so kids today know this should never ever happen again.
I saw it in 10th grade, glad our history teacher made us watch it, even though it was hard at times. I learned that WW2 is a disastrous lesson as to what happens when we let our differences get in the way of reason.
Every filmmaker has that one film that is their most personal and greatest.
Taxi Driver: Martin Scorsese
Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Edward Scissorhands: Tim Burton
For Spielberg, it will always be Schindler's List.
Id argue Malcolm x for spike lee personally
@@Kain5th Yeah I'd say that's fair.
Many thanks for sharing which gives a real insight of Spielbergs opinions on his monumental film. Greatful that he made the film, without it many people would never have known in detail what actually happened (the suffering and the atrocities). For me a hard film to watch which had me in tears many times but grateful that it gave me more insight to learn more about the history of it all.
Great movie great cast.
Actor who plays Helen is the love of my life
my favourite director
1 of the most incredible movies ever made. Masterpiece is an understatement.
I'm 60yrs old Jewish and my grandparents came from koretz Russia to Hamburg Germany and got to Liverpool England and got on the first voyage of the Mauritania ship.I grew up in lynnfield ma my both my real parents Jewish on the holidays Jewish my mother and my grandmother and other relatives one related was in auswitz and he told me he was a baker . i have a big family tree the Levine family thier is so much more in my mr.Barry Shulman.
this movie made my cry my eyes out.....................everytime i watch it .........i am sad....i must leave the room a go cry alone.
Very good interview, and amazing Film by the great director Steven Spielberg
Great soundtrack also
A memorial for them.
This movie was very hard to watch, I had to stop often.
I could stop crying. Selah higgaion.
It makes you shut up and stare remembering were we were 86 years ago.
without this movie I would have never read and got to know about holocaust....this movie is an eye opener !!!!!
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I am watching this movie almost when ever I get time..
Learning Learning and Learning
The scene at the end where Schindler thinks of all the money he wasted and how he could of saved more lives was very touching. Intense movie.
Definitely his greatest piece of work!
Dr. Mr. Steven Spielberg. Thank you from the bottom and top of my heart💕
Your comments Mr. Speilburg has brought questions to my decades of research.
Excellent movie. Spielberg did an amazing! Job
Thank you for making this film. I remember in the late 80s my German teacher in high school, a good woman, spoke so reverently about the Fuhrer and how happy and unified they were. It made me sad.
The "wokers" of today should hear what Steven Spielberg has to say about this film. It might change their minds.
It horrified me seeing the evil man can become. Can’t begin to imagine what the poor people went through back then
The Great Story Teller and the Classic movie...!
A Absolute Masterpiece! I am a Christian but still find it worrying the attitude towards Muslims in UK & USA Today!x
That's how it starts unfortunately.
Genocide - however it is being carried out - still exists! Be it African dictators, Middle-Eastern despots or powerful people in the 'civilised' world, Genocide is still a fact of life.......
anfr um Genocide happens everywhere in history and present day. Check out Rwanda
Elizabeth Reign Castillo obviously you missed the entire point of the movie. Hatred breeds among us and that is how people like Hitler rise to power and people follow . It's still happening now and your comment only proves that
He blamed the Jews for their problems .. they were the weakest link... and they were so stupid and gullible that they fell for it... it’s amazing how they thought they were the superior race and yet so much ignorance
Awesome, AWESOME interview!!!!
wonderful film & Director also
Ah darn Stephen made me cry again ! I been watching many videos about Oskar Schindler especially survivor testimony and I am an emotional mess . The final scene of movie when he was given the ring he wished he saved more , what an amazing man. God uses flawed people that’s in the Bible .
Steven Spielberg is a Amezing , ultimate talented n excellent director . Mind blowing man .
I am not a fan of Steven Spielberg. With that said, this interview is exceptional. Of the numerous moving/touching interview elements, this following one reminded me that regardless of how I feel about Steven, he is capable of a priceless empathy: The fact that Steven reflected that his experiences, while making the film, do not and cannot be compared to even a moment of the suffering that the Jewish people experienced during one of our species' worst moments in our history. I am in tears. 🌺
Huge respect to jews... and israel... they came through all this and now a major force of the world.
One of the best films ever made, its one of a few flawless films.
One of the greatest movies ever made IMO..
At the end Steven said there are 6000 descendants of Schindler jews but only 4000 descendants of jews from Poland.
Which there were originally 4 million. So one person can make a difference.
I also really liked the making of Jaws just this week on A+E. It's been awhile, I have to see that again.
Brilliant movie.....Steven Spielberg is simply an amazing artist and human.
I saw a young couple eating popcorn during this movie and I wanted to throw them out! This movie is not entertainment but a learning and remembrance
smart guy no doubt. This is his one movie (for me, of course)
If there are any servived ladies and gentlemen from the holocaust. PLEASE CONTACT ME. THANK YOU 🙏. SHALOME. This is the history they should teach in all schools. Thank you OSCAR SCHINDLER
Interesting how the analogy Spielberg uses is Hollywood.
Brilliant film it’s sad and true
When I get gangstalked by Nazis in grocery stores in Phuket, the Nazis have the Thai managers play the soundtrack to Schindler's List while I am surrounded and very Nazi-looking Europeans attack me using gang stalking tactics (which are dangerous and sometimes murder attempts have occurred). These movies depicting Jews as weak and Nazis as charming or benevolent, I have witnessed personally, are being used as a sort of training theme for this next generation of Nazis who want to remember the Shoah for "other" reasons, such as the real re-emergence of Nazism in Europe and indeed worldwide. The grim documentaries and movies revealing the genocide are being used as an aid to Nazi and genocidal sympathizers and are springboards for more of their smug reminders of Imperialistic "success" back in the Nazi era, which they want to emulate and bring back in the future. Additionally, I don't think the actors in the film Schindler's List could really epitomize the real players in this real-life drama involving Schindler's rescue atttempts, because I have this feeling that, for example, from photos I have seen of the real person of Isaak Stern reveal to my analysis (seeing his broad, glowing and happy face smiling into cameras) was that he was not a withdrawn and depressed silent type, but rather perhaps charming, engaging, and persuasive in that manner instead of withdrawn and morbidly reserved and fearful. I don't think such a personality could have engendered the sort of mutual respect of a Nazi German if he were so "weak" by German standards. There are many subtle psychological effects of these movies, and although it behooves Spielberg for making such a movie, I believe that there was a lot missing from the actual story that would have altered the relationship of Stern and Schindler (making Stern more of an active manipulator and charmer or even on a more equal footing with Schindler than what the film portrayed of a shrinking and fearful Stern under the collective thumbs of Schindler and Amon Goth).
This is his masterpiece.
Amistad is also a good movie of him
When I was younger, my entire 4rth grade class and I had a field trip. It was to the theater to watch SCHINDLER'S LIST. After words, we all got a framed print out of the permission slip with all the parents signatures on it to bring home with us. One of the most important days of my life.
How the times have changed.
The movie is rated R for a reason. I wouldn't allow my child to watch it.
Liam Neeson did an amazing job, he's an irish legend 🇮🇪
Spielberg is the all-time greatest Director, by far.
His only flaw is that he always seems to add a few unnecessary "cheesey" scenes to all his movies.
So glad he didn't do that in this one.
Being German polish Jewish Irish and American decent I don’t blame any anyone who wasn’t born in that era I only blame the nazis that killed those ppl and yet I respect Oscar Schindler because he changed and saved over a thousand Jewish ppl he was smart he even was penniless at the end of the war doesn’t that say something about him we can all make a change we all have a choice
Ok Stephen, you couldn’t get over comments from actors. I heard your experience. Sorry for my last post, 🙏
Liam Neeson is a tall man.
Thank you for your film,would you consider making a film about the war crimes trials. I think it would be a worthwhile film to make to reinforce justice,thank you.
Martyn xxx
Brilliant movie👍🏻
This is exactly whats called art, the one that touches everybodies soul,makes us cry or laugh...3 minutes of silece for all 2nd world war victims...Thanks God we never faced anything like that..Bless their hearts! And all of those who remind us about this!Brilliant👏
What do you say to those who don’t believe this tragedy took place?
Some people just will not accept reality
What should one say to Holocaust deniers, you ask? Simple: “You’re a complete piece of shit. Fuck you.”
"Come and See" is the front bookend to this film. Who will be the same after watching both?
This movie has touched me so
I’m sure the number of Schindler descendants has only grown since this interview. I wonder what the number is now.
What a movie if you can stomach the horror.
What I liken this movie to is visiting the Mütter museum in Philadelphia, Pa. it’s a medical oddity museum. That’s the easy part to process. In reality it’s “ oh, look, a dead fetus in a jar, and a dead fetus in a jar, and a dead fetus in a jar, and... yet another dead fetus in a jar followed by forty more just on that shelf. Then there are the skulls, and tumors, and plastinated corpses with no skin to show their nervous systems..
After a few hours you think “Wow, that was enlightening, but so emotionally draining.” Because a lay person can’t observe it as a medical museum. Its contents are just as horrid as “Schindler’s List”
At what age did people first watch the film? Or when do you guys think is an okay age to share with your kids? Just curious. My roommates parents watched it with her when she was 11 because they felt it was important and my other roommate wasn’t allowed to watch it until she was old enough to see R rated movies.
Watched it in World History, age 16.
I personally feel that 11 is too young. You can still educate children without exposing them to the real horror. I was a very sensitive child and would have been traumatised by watching this film at that age. It still truly disturbed me when I saw it and I was a fully grown adult. Children should be protected by certain things until they're emotionally mature and developed enough to understand
You don't need to be a good man to be a good man.
My family had the movie on Vhs. Thankfully I never watched it as a kid
What a great movie for all the wrong reasons, i have only watched it the once and it blow me away, i dread to think what it must of been like for the Jewish people trying to servive each day and the cruelty that was inflicted on them, it's such sad movie but parts of the movie make you smile, that must sound so strange, it's a piece of world history that the human race should be ashamed of
Who's this Amon Get? I wonder what he was like.