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Schindler's List(1993)
Released
1993 · FILM

Schindler's List

A German industrialist in Nazi-occupied Kraków risks his life and fortune to save over a thousand Jewish workers from the Holocaust by manipulating the system and bribing SS officials, even as the man holding the keys to their survival grows increasingly unhinged and dangerous.

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

Directed by
Steven Spielberg, Steven Speilberg
Written by
Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian
Rated
MPA · R
Color
Black & White
Runtime
195 min
BiographyDramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Oskar Schindler, a businessman, saved over a thousand Jewish lives during World War II by employing them as forced laborers in his factory under Nazi rule.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 597+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael KahnShot by Janusz KaminskiScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Allan StarskiSound by Charles L CampbellCostumes by Ewa Helman SzczerbicStunts by Krzysztof KotowskiVFX by Gail Currey

Box Office

1993 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 15× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$321.4M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$321.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $96.1M — 30% of worldwide · International: $225.3M (70%)

Opening weekend: $279K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $279K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 25 theaters

Re-release box office

20181,029 theaters
$1.4M($1.8M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Versions & cuts

  • TV· 185 min

Also known as

  • Schindlers Listede
  • La lista de Schindleres
  • La Liste de Schindlerfr
  • Schindler's List - La lista di Schindlerit
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesNov 30, 1993
  • CanadaDec 15, 1993
  • IndiaDec 15, 1993

Companies

ProductionUniversal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
DistributionUniversal Pictures, ITI Cinema, Lucernafilm - Alfa, Paramount Films of India, United International Pictures (UIP)
Special effectsPacific Title, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)
Other companiesPacific Title, Heritage Films, JoAnn Kane Music Service, Royal Capital City of Kraków, Simon Wiesenthal Center

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