Schindler's List: Book vs. Movie
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Schindler’s List is adapted from Thomas Keneally’s 1982 book Schindler’s Ark. Both tell the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who used his factories and connections to protect Jewish workers during the Holocaust.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Thomas Keneally
- Year
- 1982
- Pages
- 429Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 16 hr 48 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Humphrey Bower
Drawing on survivors’ accounts, Thomas Keneally follows Oskar Schindler, a businessman and Nazi Party member who becomes an unlikely protector of Jewish workers. Bribes and negotiations help him keep people alive as deportations and killings spread through occupied Poland.
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Writer
- Steven Zaillian
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 3 hr 15 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall
- Genre
- anti-war, biographical, Drama, epic, historical, historical drama, psychological drama, war, war drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Oskar Schindler opens a factory in occupied Kraków, hoping to profit from the war. Witnessing the persecution and murder of Jews, he begins spending his fortune to protect the workers whose labor made him wealthy.
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