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Sep 12, 2014akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 1993 American docu-drama directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally, an Australian novelist. Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. One of the most gripping, disgusting and pathetic sequences in this movie is a kind of “liquidation in miniature,” in which the camera follows a Jewish boy in a cap as he tries to find a hiding place somewhere in the camp. The boy tries to hide in a half-dozen places before finally ending up under a barracks latrine, chest-deep in human waste---only to find the space already occupied by a half-dozen other children. I can hardly believe that this incident actually took place and that some boys really survived the liquidation to tell us about it. In any case, this is one of the greatest Holocaust films.