Character Analysis #1
Schindlers List (director: Steven Allan Spielberg) Release Date: February 4, 1994 Genre: Historical Drama/Historical Fiction In his film, Schindlers List , director Steven Spielberg recounts the historical events of WWII with specific reference to Oskar Schindler and how he managed to save 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. During the movie, we are introduced to Amon Göth who was an Austrian Nazi during WWII. Göth is played by English actor, Ralph Fiennes. Amon Göth is infamously known for killing more than 10,000 people in the Plaszow and Szebnie camps and in the Kraków and Tarnów ghettos. Although he did kill prisoners for infractions, he also enjoyed killing randomly. Historically accurate accounts describe Göth as regularly partaking in "target practice" with his rifle on prisoners from the balcony of his villa. One report even