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01/10/1983 Documentary, History, TV Movie 1h 19m
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His story as told by the actual people he saved.

Overview

The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.

  1. Jon Blair

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Dirk Bogarde

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Irena Schek

    Self - Shoah Survivor

  3. Mojesz Pantirer

    Self - Shoah Survivor

  4. Solomon Urbach

    Self - Shoah Survivor

  5. Emilie Schindler

    Self - Schindler's Wife

  6. Eva Kisza

    Self - Schindler's Mistress

  7. Leopold Pfefferberg

    Self - Shoah Survivor

  8. Ruth Kalder

    Self - Amon Göth's Mistress

  9. Herman Rosner

    Self - Shoah Survivor

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-18
Aside from capitalising on an astonishing selection of (sometimes quite harrowing) archive, this documentary also presents us with an insightful array of interviews with many of the survivors of the Nazi persecution of the Jews during the 1940s. Abhorred by the activities of the National Socialists, local industrialist Oskar Schindler manages to convince the authorities that using the Jewish population as disposable manual labour was a better use of their numbers than just sending them to a concentration or labour camps. For a while, this served a dual function in supporting the war machine in...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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