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Working with Curtis, Wouk quickly learned how stringent TV's narrative requirements are. "Only 15% to 20% of the material in the book is on the screen," he notes. "The film medium can say a lot more in a hurry. The attack on the refugees fleeing from Cracow to Warsaw was built sentence by sentence in the book in order to engage the reader's imagination. In a few seconds on the screen, however, you have flames, zooming planes, horses rearing, people falling...
...conversation with the shopkeeper, Paul Page, 70. Discovering that Keneally was a writer, Page hauled out letters and documents and recounted how Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, had saved the lives of 1,300 Jews who had been assigned by the Nazis to work at his factory in Cracow, Poland, during World War II. Page, one of the 1,300, said that Schindler, a Roman Catholic, had died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem as one of Israel's honored dead. Two years after that meeting, Schindler's List, Keneally's account of Schindler...
...solemn procession moved out of the gates of the giant steel mill at Nowa Huta, an industrial city less than ten miles from Cracow, and began to make its way across railroad tracks and cinder heaps to a hill overlooking the foundry. Many workers in the column carried their soot-smudged vermilion hard hats under their arms. Others held bunches of chrysanthemums or evergreen wreaths bedecked with ribbons bearing bold messages like IT is BETTER TO DIE STANDING UP THAN LIVE ON YOUR
...every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days, the streets of major cities are empty by early evening. Cracow's ancient market square, normally crowded with youths, folk singers and tourists, seems as lifeless as a clock bereft of hands...
...keep people off the streets on the night of the five-month anniversary, the government showed the movie Easy Rider on state television. But the protests turned ugly that evening as about 50 young demonstrators in Warsaw's Old Town were cleared away by club-wielding policemen. In Cracow, meanwhile, about 7,000 people gathered near the Church of the Virgin Mary, chanting protest slogans and singing the national anthem. When the crowd ignored orders to disband, they were charged by about 1,000 members of the notorious ZOMO motorized police force, who cleared the streets with water cannons...