Keyword: holocaust (shoah)
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List arrived in 1993 with a simple pitch and a director, Steven Spielberg, who clearly had bigger ambitions for the drama genre than the logline suggested. “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t oversell it by much. At its core,…
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The Pianist
Every so often a drama film comes along that refuses to be filed away neatly, and The Pianist is exactly that kind of stubborn, memorable outlier. The film’s own tagline — “Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going for. The story kicks off from…