Schindler's List - BOW Analysis
Title: Schindler’s List Year: 1993 Writer: Steven Zaillian Producer: Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen Country: Kraków and Olkusz, Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Language: English, German Genre: War, Historical Drama Global Issue: The effects of religious intolerance on ethnic groups. (FOI: Beliefs, values and education) Theme: Triumph of the Human Spirit, Difference made by one individual, Denial Scene: Commandant Amon Göth chooses his maid and shoots the Jewish engineer. This scene introduces Commandant Amon Göth in his first day of duty. He selects his Jewish housemaid, Helen Hirsch among a line of prisoners brought to him. Despite being a Nazi, he is oddly soft in his conversation with Helen. However, his sadism and ego are shown whenhe shoots Diana Reiter, a Jew prisoner and engineer, for pointing out the flaws in theconstruction of the barracks. Right after this, he orders his inferiors to do just as Diana said– to demolish the construction and rebui
