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An ESL / EFL Online Gap-Fill Quiz on Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who the lives of more than a thousand Jewish in Poland during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was by Steven Spielberg, and is on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. It Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant. The film was a box office success and won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original . In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all .

Schindler's List won great from many of Spielberg's . Filmmaker Billy Wilder reportedly wrote a long letter of thanks to Spielberg in which he said: "They couldn't have gotten a better man. This movie is absolutely ." Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino that Schindler's List left him "shaken" and that "even though I have seen many films about the Holocaust, none up to that had managed to get at the feeling of what it was like to be in the inside of a concentration ." The film was well in Israel, where it is aired on public television every year on Holocaust Memorial Day, unedited, and without commercial breaks.