Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List ends with a cemetery scene: “That ending was a way to confirm that everything in the movie is true”

Steven Spielberg said the final scene is in Schindler’s Listwhere Holocaust survivors visit Oskar Schindler’s grave was a late addition to the picture and was his way of assuring the audience that the film’s story was based on true facts.

“Holocaust denial was on the rise again – that was the reason I made the film in 1993,” he said in a recent interview with the Sunday Times. “That ending was a way to confirm that everything in the film is true.”

Spielberg said it all the time Schindler’s ListHe had never made a film that confronted a message so directly’ that he felt the world needed to hear.

“It had an important message that is more important now than it was in 1993 because anti-Semitism is so much worse now than it was when I made the film,” he added.

In addition to the strong political message of the film Schindler’s List was also one of Spielberg’s most acclaimed films. The film won seven Oscars, including best picture and his first, best director. The film is also one of the highest-grossing black-and-white films at the domestic box office, with $96 million, a share of its $321.3 million worldwide gross.

Schindler’s List tells the story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. The film was released on December 15, 1993 and had a limited run before breaking into 1,000 theaters in mid-March 1994.

The film, starring Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, also won Oscars for composer John Williams, screenwriter Steven Zaillian and cinematographer Janusz Kaminiski, as well as art directors Allan Starski and Ewa Braun, editor Michael Kahn, and producers Spielberg, Gerald R.Molen and Branko a cheerful one.

Spielberg is currently hitting awards and promotions for his latest picture. The Fables. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Spielberg’s first nomination for Best Screenplay.

Co-written with Tony Kushner, the Universal Amblin film is loosely based on Spielberg’s childhood and follows Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), a young man growing up in post-World War II Arizona who discovers and investigates a shocking family secret . how the power of movies can help him see the truth.