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6F ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1993 REVIEW FILM HINTS FROM HELOISE Spielberg's Story Of Holocaust Is Triumph a silent witness to the red coat, crimes. Dear Heloise: I am recently married, and one of the gifts I received was a slow-cooker pot. I have to recommend one of these for anyone who has a busy schedule. Since my husband and I both work, coming home and cooking can get very tiresome very quickly.

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thing is based on fact but still terms his book a novel. The film is long, but mesmerizing in every respect, and in an unforgettable epilogue, set at Schindler's grave in Jerusalem, the remaining Schindler Jews, escorted by the actors who portrayed them in the film, step forward to place symbolic stones at his tombstone. Spielberg has created his masterpiece. (Kenrick) fortune. He moved from Austria to Poland in the fall of 1939 and took advantage of German regulations to buy a factory that had been owned by Jews.

He bought it cheaply, but he also had Jewish investors, assuring the original owners a return on their property. Schindler had no interest in charity or kindness, but as the screws tightened on the Jewish population of Krakow, his stomach began to turn, and he used all his con-man skills, plus cash bribery, drink, women, gambling and any other available tactic to Schindler actually saw her, first on one street, then another, and she was the key that unlocked his feelings. Embeth Davidtz is wonderful as a Jewish woman who was Goeth's housemaid, and Jonathan Sagalle is strong as Poldek Pfefferbrg (later Leo Page), who worked with Schindler and who later was the inspiration for Keneally's novel. Interestingly, Keneally writes that every "SCHINDLER'S LIST" Rating: violence, nudity, language. Running time: 3:05.

By Joe Pollack 01 the Post-Dispatch Staff WHEN A JEWISH youth reaches the age of 13 and goes through the Bar Mitzvah ceremony, he vows iq aside childish things and become a man. -Schindler's List" is Steven Spielberg's cinematic Bar Mitzvah. There are no childhood dreams, elements or special-effects wizardry in "Schindler's List." It is a spare, searing story of the banality of "evil and the strange heroes who rose to 'fight against it. In this case, the hero is Oskar Schindler, an Austrian Catholic businessman a drinker, a womanizer, a man with no apparent I VI Wit 2Ttf mm 'chindler managed to mm LOOK FOR THE RED TAGS TAKE AN ADDITIONAL no compromise the German military establishment. Schindler's Jews worked long hours, but there were no beatings, and the food was better.

Eventually, he built his own camp, adjacent to the factory, and by 1944, he moved more than 1,000 Jews to a new location in Czechoslovakia, where they made defective ammunition until the war ended. Schindler, bluffing and cajoling every step of the way, eventually paid the German Army for all "his" Jews, and when be went bankrupt after the war, their children supported him until his death, in 1974. As usual, truth is stranger than fiction. Spielberg brought together a large and international cast, and shooting in Krakow, where so may Jews were murdered, made effective performances even easier, it appears. Liam Neeson is a splendid Schindler, tall, handsome, devil-may-care and a poker-playing genius.

Ben Kingsley, as Itzhak Stern, Schindler's accountant and chief aide, is as brilliant as ever, and Ralph Fiennes is evil and powerful as Amon Goeth, a concentration camp commander who would coolly shoot Jews with his sniper's rifle while he enjoyed morning coffee on his front porch. Goeth killed at random, but he was the man with whom Schindler had to deal, and the verbal sparring matches between Neeson and Fiennes are chilling. The Nazi evil is almost unspeakable, and Spielberg's dispassionate approach to the horror emphasizes it. Random killings and beatings, casual executions approach the mind-bending. The massacre of the ghetto, as Schindler and his mistress watch from the top of a nearby hill, is what turned him into a zealous savior.

During the savagery, Spielberg focuses from time to time on a small girl in a Or produce faulty ammunition for the German Army. interest except in making money who Saved more than a thousand Jews j- from the concentration camp ovens. I This isn't a large number posed the 6 million who died, but Spielberg has made a memorable film about an extremely complex man. did more than save Jews; he-also managed to produce faulty for the German Army. details help make the movie only a grim tale of life and death, taut also an amazing caper story about of the great con men of the 20th eritury.

Working in black and white, iexcept for an opening, a moving epilogue and a few stomach-turning vi- sions of a red coat, Spielberg has given his triumph the look of a documentary. In addition, he has shot in a 1930s style, using mostly three-quar- ter views of faces and a glorious use -of shadow to create both light and "emphasis. Janus Kaminski, director of pho- tography, rates major kudos for his work, much of which was done with hand-held cameras. Steven Zaillian, who wrote "Awakenings" and wrote and directed "Searching for Bobby Fischer," did the screenplay, based on Thomas Keneally's book. Schindler was a man for whom war was a lovely opportunity to make a SELECTED CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE Wreaths Tree Skirts Tree Toppers Selected ornaments Green Branch Carlanrl Pro.Drlreri Rnv rhrictmac Carrie waaBWBB waa SWn Will WWII 3 Selected Christmas Wrap A Greeting Cards Buy a gift certificate, get a free $29.95 gift certificate! 1 "tmmm- Discounted Up To topi Give her a professional makeover with color portraits.

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