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...Degrees of Separation" at 1:30, 4:50, 7:10 and 10. "In the Name of the Father" at 12:45, 3:35, 6:20, 9 and 11:35. "Shadowlands" at 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:20. "Schindler's List" at 12:30, 4:10, 7:50 and 11:20. "Rocky Horror" at 12:05 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights...
What happened was the belated restoration of Oskar Schindler. In Israel, where he is buried, Schindler was a hero. In Poland, where he connived to save lives, he was a footnote in a history book. In Germany, where he was once sued for punching a man who called him a "Jew kisser," he was an embarrassment to all those who knew something and did nothing. And because amnesia is the most convenient placebo for collective guilt, Schindler was essentially a nonperson. In the '70s Artur Brauner, a German Jew, tried to make a movie about Schindler but could not raise...
...official and popular response to Schindler's List was a mixture of benumbed awe and gratitude. But, as in the U.S., some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead, turned a continent's horror story into a fairy tale. In the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, historian Tom Segev dismissed it as "Spielberg's Holocaust Park," called the Auschwitz sequence "pornography" and concluded, "Spielberg needs the Holocaust, but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg." In the German newspaper Die Welt, critic Will Tremper headlined his review "Indiana...
...hour 15-minute movie. Yes, on a school day; but playing hooky will educate kids in ! the lesson of man's inhumanity to man -- and of one man's humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help, even in 1944, even in Auschwitz, you could." And the response to Schindler's List is proof that...
History: Tears for Schindler in Israel and Germany...