As a Director of Hits such as “jaws”, “raiders of the lost ark”, “E. T.” and “Jurassic Park” brought Steven Spielberg billion in the box office. But it was only with his Holocaust Drama “Schindler’s list” he was taken as a film maker seriously.
He was 46 years old when he was brought 25 years ago to this most personal and eindringli the most work in the cinema and millions of people all over the world, stirring and churning up.
His Film about the German Industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved during the Second world war in his Krakow factory of over 1100 Jewish workers from the Holocaust, is celebrated on November 30. November 1993, Washington Premiere. The US cinema release followed on may 15. In December 1993, the German cinema release on 3. March 1994.
The three and a half hour long Black-and-White Film, with Liam Neeson in the main role, was awarded with seven Oscars. At the award gala in March 1994, Spielberg was named best Director and was the producer of the Oscar for best Film. The 350,000 Holocaust witnesses were still alive, said the filmmaker at the time. “Please listen to their words, and teaches in the schools,” appealed he of the Oscar stage to teachers and educators.
For Spielberg meant the filming of a “Re-awakening” as a Jew. He had to leave the project for many years to rest before he ventured, finally, to the dark Holocaust Betasus Chapter. The Hollywood Director turned on for months at the gates of the former concentration camp at Auschwitz.
on the Occasion of the 25. Anniversary the Studio Universal Pictures is bringing the movie on the 27. January 2019, the day of remembrance of the victims of national socialism, revised technically in the German cinemas. “The true stories about the extent and tragedy of the Holocaust must never be forgotten, and the Lessons of the movie about the crucial importance of fighting hatred halls today,” said Spielberg in a statement.
in the year of his Oscar triumph, Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation to document, with the aim of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazi Regime with time-Interviews. The Foundation has more than 50,000 is Concerned, the video recordings were digitized and cataloged. The huge archive is used worldwide by schools and other institutions.
It is unique in that as a result of a movie, a Foundation, have created the world’s largest collection of eye-witness reports, said the head of the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Stephen Smith, the German press Agency. “We have become a research Institute, and our content will be used from 140 universities and other institutions in 80 countries.”
With the new cinema distribution of “Schindler’s list” will hopefully be addressed by a younger Generation who have not seen the Film 25 years ago, says Smith. “The message of the film is incredibly out of date. In difficult times like these, when we experience hatred and exclusion, values and empathy, such as Oskar Schindler showed you, all the more important.”
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