And it was evening and it was morning, the sixth day...
And the heavens and the earth and all their hosts were completed
And God finished by the seventh day...
"His" work which "He" had done,
and "He" rested on the seventh day from all...
..."His" work which "He" had done
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
Lord our God, King of the universe,
who has sanctified us with His commandments has desired us
and has given us, in love and good will, His holy Shabbat as a heritage,
in remembrance of the work of Creation; For You have chosen us and sanctified us
from among all the nations, and with love
and good will given us Your holy Shabbat as a heritage.
Blessed are You Lord, who sanctifies the Shabbat
- Name? - Horowitz, Salomon.
- Schneider, Sarah. - Birnbaum, Olga?
- Over there. Over there! - Come here!
- Isak Hudes. - Hudes, Isak.
Zucker, Helena.
Zucker, Helena!
- Hirsch, Salomon? - Mandel, Maria.
- Hauptman, Chaim! - Weisman! Weisman, Marcus!
- Feber, Ludwig! - Feber, Ludwig.
Elsa Bauman.
- Josef Klein. - Klein.
- Davidowich, Ignacy. - Paula Biffer. - Nadel, Rachela.
- Steiner, Gertruda. - Steiner, Hilda.
- Jerzy, you know who that man is? - I don't know.
Let's get together, please.
Smile. Good!
Yes, sir.
Bring them over a round of drinks.
Very good, sir. And who shall I say they are from?
You can say they are from me.
- From the gentleman. - Where?
Do you know him?
- Find out who he is. - Yes, sir!
Agnieszka, I would give anything to hear you sing tonight...
...but I know you won't.
You embarrass me.
What's he doing?
Stay here.
How are you doing?
You'd leave a woman alone at the table in a place like this?
Sweetheart, you're the picture of loneliness.
What a lovely fragrance. You are breaking my heart.
An extra chair, please. Vodka for my friend.
- And for the lady? - Pernod!
"There's a wood sale in Green Forest... "
"... a wood sale!"
"Wood is being sold in the Green Forest. "
Come to the table, girls! Drink with us!
"Left around the corner, right around the corner... "
"... there is wood sale everywhere. "
Come to us! Merry us!
"The whole trunk costs only one taler. one taler. "
"The whole trunk costs only one taler, one taler. "
- Thank you. - I'll tell you what I mean by cooperative.
Two days after the law is passed that all Jews have to wear the star...
...the Jewish tailors are turning them out by the gross in a variety...
...of fabrics at three zloty each.
Tell me about your cellar wines.
- I have an excellent German Riesling, 1937. - French!
- A Bordeaux. Chateau Latour, '28, '29? - No, I'm sorry.
It's as if they have no idea what kind of law it is.
As if it's the emblem of a riding club.
- A Margaux, '29? - No, no, we don't have that.
- Burgundy then? A Romanee-Conti, '37? - Yes.
It's human nature. "We'll do this to avoid that. "
That's what they have done since thousands of years.
It's what they do. They weather the storm.
But this storm is different. This is not the Romans. This storm is the SS.
"If God wants to honor you... "
"... then he'll send you world wide. "
"If god wants to honor you then he'll send you world wide. "
"Faleri, Falera... "
"... Faleri Falera-ha ha ha!"
"Faleri, Falera!"
"He sends you away world wide"
- Martin? - Yes, sir!
Who is that man?
That's Oskar Schindler!
"Faleri, Falera ha ha ha!"
"He sends you away world wide. "
"Faleri, Falera!"
"He sends you away world wide. "
To Krakow!
Attention, all Jews!
From now on, Jewish art...
...meat preparing is forbidden.
Announcement for all Jews! From now on...
- Rabbi... - Private property cannot be confiscated.
- How long are the schools going to be closed?
- I do not know the answer..
- Article 47: Pillage is formally prohibited. - You don't know anything!
- I am familiar with the Hague Convention. - Religious...
They come into our house and tell us we don't live there any more.
It now belongs to a certain SS officer.
Please! I only know what they tell me.
And what they tell me changes from day to day!
Aren't you supposed to be able to help?
I mean, what if I just took this thing off?
- What are they going to do about it? - They will shoot you.
- Why don't you stop this silly talk? - Itzhak Stern!
I'm looking for Itzhak Stern.
Are you Itzhak Stern or not?
- I am. - Where can we talk?
There's a company you did the books for, on Lipowa Street.
Made what? Pots and pans?
By law, I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew.
Well, I'm a German. So there we are.
- A good company, you think? - Modestly successful.
I know nothing about enamelware. Do you?
I was just the accountant.
Simple engineering though, wouldn't you think?
Change the machines around, whatever you do...
...you could make other things, couldn't you?
Field kits, mess kits. Army contracts.
Once the war ends, forget it, but for now it's great.
You can make a fortune, don't you think?
I think most people right now have other priorities.
Like what?
I'm sure you'll do just fine, once you get the contracts.
In fact, the worse things get, the better you'll do.
Oh, well, I can get the signatures I need. That's the easy part.
Finding the money to buy the company, that's hard.
You don't have any money?
Not that kind of money. You know anybody?
Jews, yeah.
Investors. You must have contacts...
...in the Jewish business community working here.
What community? Jews can no longer own businesses.
- That's why this one's in receivership. - But they wouldn't own it.
I'd own it. I'd pay them back in product- pots and pans.
- Pots and pans! - Something they can use.
Something they can feel in their hands.
They can trade it on the black market, do whatever they want.
Everybody's happy!
If you want, you could run the company for me.
Let me understand.
They'd put up all the money, I'd do all the work.
What, if you don't mind my asking, would you do?
I'd make sure it's known the company's in business.
I'd see that it had a certain panache.
That's what I'm good at. Not the work, not the work.
The presentation!
I'm sure I don't know anybody who'll be interested in this.
Well, they should be, Itzhak Stern.
Tell them they should be.
Attention, attention!
All Jews! From now on, it's forbidden...
I've got a client who'll sell marks for zloty at 2.45 to 1.
Wool, mink collar. It's a nice coat.
She'll trade it for ration coupons.
- Wicks, for lamps. - You have a truckload of wicks?
What am I going to do with a truckload of wicks?
9 by 12, 9 by 14.
I don't know. Big, beautiful, Persian.
- What? - You don't recognize this?
- It's shoe polish. - In metal containers?
You asked for shoe polish.
In metal containers. This is glass, it's not what I asked for.
What's the difference?
- What's the difference? - What's the difference?
My client sold it to his client, who sold it to the German Army.
Only by the time it got there, because...
...of the freezing cold, it broke. All 10,000 units.
This is not my problem.
- This is not his problem. - This is not your problem?
- This is not my problem. - All right!
The German Army wants to find out where it came from.
- I am going to make sure they find out. - Now it's your problem.
You be quiet!
Metal containers.
Hello!
Pardon me for interfering, but that's a nice shirt.
Nice shirt.
Do you know where I can find a nice shirt like that?
Like this?
It's illegal to buy or sell anything on the street.
We don't do that. We're here to pray.
Do you have any idea how much a shirt like this costs?
Nice things cost money.
How many?
I'm going to need some other things, too, as things come up.
- This won't be a problem. - From time to time.
Attention! Attention!
- Name? Address? - Fill in the forms!
Go on, go on! Don't push each other!
- You come here! - Stay there!
Attention! Attention! All Jews are enforced...
...to live in the Jewish district.
Not getting the residence from the registry office...
...will be against decree 44/91 and judged through the military court.
This is obviously the right place. How are you doing?
Goodbye, Jews! Goodbye, Jews!
Goodbye, Jews!
Oh, my God!
Oy, God! Oh, my God!
It could not be better.
- It could be worse. - How? Tell me.
How on earth could it possibly be worse?
Good morning!
- Hey, Goldberg. - Poldek.
What's this?
- Uh, the Jewis assembly has its own police now.
- You don't say. - Coordination service!
I'm a policeman now, could you believe it? It's hard to believe.
Oh, no, it's not hard to believe.
It's a good racket, Poldek. The only racket here.
Look, maybe I could put in a good word for you with my superiors.
Your superiors?
- Come on, they're not as bad as everyone says.
Well, they're worse than everyone says, but it's a lot of money.
A lot of money!
Give me my housing assignment.
- Come on. - You look funny in that hat, Goldberg.
You look like a clown, you know?
He's a very important man.
Just give him two minutes of your time.
Since when did time cost money? Just sit down and listen...
...please! Sir?
For each thousand you invest, I will repay you with...
- Two hundred. - ... 200 kilos of enamelware a month...
...to begin in July and to continue for one year.
After which time, we're even. That's it. It's very simple.
- Not good enough. - It's not good enough!
Not good enough?
Look where you're living. Look where you've been put. "Not good enough! "
A couple of months ago you'd be right, not anymore.
Money's still money.
No, it is not! That's why we are here.
Trade goods...
...that's the only currency that'll be worth anything in the ghetto.
Things have changed, my friend.
Did I call this meeting?
You told Mr Stern you wanted to speak to me.
I'm here. I've made you a fair offer.
Fair would be a percentage in the company.
Forget the whole thing. Get out!
How do we know that you will do what you say?
Because I said I would.
You want a contract? To be upheld by what court?
I said what I'll do. That's our contract.
Five, six, seven...
...eight, nine...
The standard SS rate for Jewish skilled labourers is seven marks a day...
...five for unskilled and women.
This is what you pay the Reich Economic Office.
The Jews themselves receive nothing.
Poles you pay wages. Generally, they get a little more.
- Are you listening? - What was that about the SS?
The rate? The what?
The Jewish worker's salary...
...you pay it directly to the SS, not to the worker.
- He gets nothing. - But it's less.
- It's less than what I would pay a Pole. - It's less?
That's the point I'm trying to make.
Poles cost more.
Why should I hire Poles?
An enamelware factory, over at, Lipowa Street.
It, uh, it, um... It's owned by a German.
But it's outside the ghetto, so you can barter for extra goods...
...for eggs, I don't know what you need...
...with the Polish workers. You can't get it here.
Also, he's asking for ten healthy women for the...
I'm healthy!
Bring your sister, okay?
You need to convince them you have a trade...
...something valuable to the war effort.
- Like what? - I'm a musician. - What if you don't?
Your name goes on a list.
- Your name is on the list, they put you on trucks...
- No, no, no, that's not true. - You're a musician?
- Yeah. - I'd find a good hiding place if I were you.
- I'm not going to hide like some animal. - There are places to hide.
The next!
I'm a graduate of the University of Lwow.
I used to work at the hydroelectric station in Roznow...
Blue card!
I'm gonna get the necessary papers because this card is no good any more.
You can stay in this line all day, you'll still get one of these.
They are no good. You'll have to leave the line now...
...then you'll get a blue card, a Blauschein, to say that you are an essential worker.
I'll get these papers for you at Pankiewicz.
Pharmacist. Just there, look!
Guess who is here?
Poldek! Enjoying the weather, Poldek?
- Enjoying the lines? - Need some shoe polish?
In metal container maybe!
Not essential? I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word.
No blue card, sir. Stand over there.
Move. Next!
What do you mean, "Not essential"?
I teach history and literature. Since when it's not essential?
He's metal polisher.
- It was not right? - It's very good. He's 53 years old.
- It's too new. - Thank you.
You're crazy. You left it in your drawer.
How many times have I told you?
Your work certificate, you keep in your pocket at all times.
And you leave everything in your drawer.
How many times I've told you?
I'm a metal polisher!
Take the round sheet of tin...
...dip it in soap emulsion.
Then place it centrally in the press.
We obtain the soup pot. The soup pot!
Soup pot!
Grosz, Mrs Grosz, stay together.
Look, sir, I have ten work permits here for the German enamel factory...
...and signed by Mr Bankier and myself.
If it's carbonized, clean it with a file.
But don't touch both the electrodes at the same time.
You'll get electrocuted. Here, have a try.
Roll the metal under the press...
...but be very careful unless you want your fingers...
...to become part of the teapot!
- Occupation? - I'm a writer. I play the flute.
But Moses is a skilled metalworker.
He can make tin pots. He can make tanks.
He can make whatever Mr Schindler asks.
He's highly skilled. Give him your card.
Moses, give him your card.
Now, dip the basin with the tongs into the enamel solution.
And after swiveling it around, carefully place it aside to drip-dry.
And whatever he asks you, allow me just to represent you and speak for you.
Don't say a word!
Filing, billing, keeping track of my appointments, shorthand.
- Typing, obviously. How is your typing? - Uh, all right.
Please!
You need a secretary. Pick one.
I don't know how. They're all so... qualified.
You have to choose.
Big smile, big smile!
If you would, look after my guest.
Um, boxed teas are good. Coffee, pâté, um...
...kielbasa sausage, cheeses, Beluga caviar...
...and, of course, who could live without German cigarettes?
Get me as many as you can find.
And some more fresh fruit.
The real rarities, oranges, lemons, pineapples.
I need several boxes of Cuban cigars. The best.
And dark unsweetened chocolate...
...not in the shape of ladyfingers, the chunk chocolate.
Big as my hand, you sample at wine tastings.
We're going to need lots of cognac. The best, Hennessy.
Dom Perignon champagne. Um, get L 'espadon sardines...
...and, oh, try to find nylon stockings.
It is my distinct pleasure to announce...
...the fully operational status of German enamel factory...
...manufacturers of superior enamelware crockery...
...expressly designed and crafted for military use.
Utilizing only the most modern equipment...
...D.E.F.'s staff of highly skilled and experienced artisans and journeymen...
...deliver a product of unparalleled quality...
...enabling me to proffer, with absolute confidence and pride...
...a full line of field and kitchenware...
...unsurpassable in all respects by my competitors.
See attached list and available colours.
Anticipating the enclosed bids will meet with your approval...
...looking forward to a long and mutually prosperous association...
...I extend to you in advance my sincerest gratitude...
...and very best regards. Oskar Schindler.
Yeah, I need 700 gross from here for next Thursday.
Nine hundred, no, make it ten for Wednesday.
All this stuff here goes to Madritsch's factory on Tuesday of next week.
My father was fond of saying, "You need three things in life... "
"... a good doctor, a forgiving priest... "
"... and a clever accountant. "
The first two, I've never had much use for.
But the third!
Just pretend, for Christ's sake!
Is that all?
I'm trying to thank you.
I'm saying I couldn't have done this without you.
The usual thing would be to acknowledge my gratitude.
It would also, by the way, be the courteous thing.
You're welcome.
Get out of here!
Klonowska, who is it?
She's so embarrassed. Look at her.
You know something? You would like her.
- Oskar, please! - What?
I don't have to like her... just because you do.
It doesn't work that way.
You've done well here.
You look wonderful.
- Be careful of the step, miss. - Mrs Schindler, Marek.
- It's not a charade, all this? - Charade? How could it be a charade?
- The clothes, the car, the apartment. - Wait a minute.
Take a guess how many people are on my payroll.
Oskar!
My father, at the height of his success, had 50. I've got 350.
350 workers on the factory floor, with one purpose.
To make pots and pans?
To make money. For me!
Does anyone ask about me?
Back home? Everybody. All the time.
They won't soon forget the name Schindler here, I can tell you that.
"Oskar Schindler" they'll say.
"Everybody remembers him. "
"He did something extraordinary. "
"He did something no one else did. "
"He came here with nothing, a suitcase...
"... and built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory. "
"And left with a steamer trunk... "
"... two steamer trunks full of money. "
"All the riches of the world. "
It's comforting to see that nothing's changed.
You're wrong, Emilie.
There's no way I could have known this before but...
...there was always something missing.
In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed.
Something was missing.
Even if I'd known what it was, there's nothing I could have done about it...
...because you can't create this thing.
And it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.
Luck?
War!
Should I stay?
It's a beautiful city.
I asked you if I should stay.
It's up to you.
Promise me, Oskar. No doorman or maitre d' will ever presume...
...I'm anyone other than Mrs. Schindler, and I'll stay.
Goodbye, darling.
I could try to read this or I could eat my lunch while it's still hot.
We're doing well?
- Yes. - Better this month than last?
- Yes. - Any reason to think next month will be worse?
The war could end.
- What? - There is a machinist outside...
...who'd like to thank you personally for giving him a job.
Every day he comes. He's very grateful. It'll just take a minute.
Mr Lowenstein!
I want to thank you, sir...
...for giving me the opportunity to work.
You're welcome. I'm sure you're doing a great job.
The SS beat me up. They would have killed me...
...but I am essential to the war effort, thanks to you.
That's great.
I work hard for you.
- I'm sure you do. - I'll continue to work hard for you.
That's great. Thanks.
- God bless you, sir. - All right.
You are a good man.
- He saved my life. - Yes, he did.
- God bless him. - Yeah. Come on.
God bless you!
I'm sorry, Herr Direktor, but you're running very late.
This is for the major, sir.
And this is for his niece, Greta. It's her birthday.
- Greta as in Garbo. - Don't ever do that to me again.
Go. Go, go, drive! Don't bow.
- Did you notice that man had one arm? - Did he?
- What's his use? - Very useful.
- How? - Very useful! Success!
You'll be given brooms and shovels...
...each of you will grab one and start cleaning the street.
We'll be late for work.
You shouldn't think of them as yours, Oskar.
You need to understand that some of the officers here...
...don't give a damn about production.
To them, it's a matter of, um, national priority...
...that Jews be made to shovel snow.
It's got nothing to do with reality, Oskar.
You know it and I know it.
Jews shoveling snow!
It's got a, um, ritual significance.
- Come with me. - I am an essential worker.
- Essential worker? - Yes.
- I work for Oskar Schindler. - Essential worker for Oskar Schindler.
- A one-armed Jew? Twice as useless! - Yes, yes.
I lost a day of production, Rolf.
I work for Oskar Schindler.
Danka, look at the snow. Look at the snow. Look at the snow!
I lost a worker. I expect to be compensated.
File a grievance with the Economic Office. It's your right.
- Would it do any good? - Of course not!
A big shot from the SS Budget and Construction Office came to lunch...
...and he told us that to believe the Jewish skilled worker had a place...
...in Reich economics was a treasonable idea.
A one-armed machinist, Oskar?
He was a metal press operator.
Quite skilled.
Mr. Director!
Shit. I don't believe it.
Stern, is that you?
No, it's Poldek. It's about Stern.
Leave your luggage on the platform.
Clearly label it.
Given name first, then your surname.
Do not bring your baggage with you.
It will follow you later.
Leave your luggage on the platform.
Clearly label it.
Leave your luggage on the platform.
Stern?
- He's on the list. - He is?
- Well, let's find him. - I'm sorry. You can't have him.
He's on the list. If he were an essential worker, he would not be on the list.
I'm talking to a clerk. What is your name?
- Sir, the list is correct. - I didn't ask you about the list.
- I asked you your name. - Klaus Tauber.
Tauber!
Squad leader, this gentleman thinks a mistake's been made.
My plant manager is somewhere on this train.
If it leaves with him on it, it'll disrupt production...
...and the Armaments Board will want to know why.
- Attention! The train is about to leave. - Is he on the list?
Yes, sir. Itzhak Stern.
Well, the list is correct, sir. There is nothing I can do.
- What is your name? - Close and secure all doors.
- My name? My name is Kunder. - This train is now leaving.
- Kunder. - Hauptscharführer Kunder.
- K-U-N-D-E-R. - And what's yours?
Schindler. S- C-H-I-N-D-L-E-R.
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
I think I can guarantee you you'll both be in...
...Southern Russia before the end of the month. Good day.
Stern!
- Stern! - Stern!
Itzhak Stern!
Stern! Itzhak Stern!
- Stern! Stern! - Itzhak Stern!
- Stern! - Sir!
- Stern! - Herr Direktor!
My apologies.
- Stop the train! He's here! - I apologize.
- Stop the train! - Stop the train! Stop it!
Sign here. Initial there.
Makes no difference to us, you understand. This one, that one.
It's the inconvenience to the list.
- It's the paperwork. - I somehow left my work card at home.
I tried to explain them it was a mistake, but...
- ... I'm sorry, it was stupid! - What if I got here five minutes later?
Then where would I be?
I woke up from a dream this morning.
I was broke and sharing a room with 12 people I didn't know...
...only to discover I was broke and sharing a room with 12 people I didn't know.
- You laugh about it? - I have to laugh.
You are living behind walls.
The walls I can deal with.
It's the restrictions to my life I'm tired of.
Those walls keep them out. That's all I care about.
I like it here. There's a kind of, I don't know...
...ancestral squalor to it all.
- You are a slave to these people. - No one envies us any more.
- I'm smart! - Oh, yes, you're smart!
- You're a real genius. - You had your chance.
Today, today I actually found time to organize a thought.
I can't remember the last time I did that.
When's the last time we did this?
When's the last time we stood around and talked?
No one ordered me onto a truck today.
No one took my business away from me.
You don't really have a business to take.
There's nowhere down from here.
This is it. This is the bottom.
The ghetto is, liberty!
This street divides the ghetto just about in half.
Right side, Ghetto A: Civil employees...
...industrial workers and so on.
Left side, Ghetto B: Surplus labour...
...the elderly and infirm mostly.
Which is where you'll want to start, huh?
Do you have any questions, sir?
Ja, why is the top down? I'm fucking freezing.
We expect a labor force of 25.000 to 30.000.
Segregated of course. The men in the barracks near the guarry...
- the women on the other side of the wire. - My place is where?
- There, sir. - There?
- Yes, the villa. - You call that a villa?
- Their synagogue, can you see it? - That's not a villa!
- We' to turn it into the camp stables. - It's a house!
What's that over there?
Playground. Fifty-one.
And we have a dentist, shoemaker, practical physicians.
There they are, sir.
One of you is, uh, a very lucky girl.
There is an opening for a job...
...away from all this, backbreaking work...
...at my new villa.
Uh...
...which of you has domestic experience?
Yeah, on second thought, I don't really want someone else's maid.
All those annoying habits I have to undo.
I don't want to give you my cold.
Uh, what's your name?
- Helen Hirsch. - What?
Helen Hirsch.
- What? I can't hear. - Helen Hirsch.
- Yes! - Take it all down!
- Back to your work! - To work!
Take it down! It is not safe!
She says the foundation was poured wrong. She's got to take it down.
I told her it's the barracks, not the fucking Hotel Europa.
Fucking Jew bitch engineer. You fucking bitch!
Herr Kommandant. The entire foundation...
...has to be torn down and repoured.
If not, there will be at least a subsidence...
...at the southern end of the barracks.
Subsidence, and then collapse.
- And you are an engineer? - Yes!
My name is Diana Reiter. I'm a graduate...
...of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
Ah, an educated Jew, like Karl Marx himself.
- Sergeant! - Yes, sir!
- Shoot her. - What?
Commander! I'm only trying to do my job.
Yeah, I'm doing mine.
Sir, she's foreman of construction.
We are not going to have arguments with these people.
Okay!
No! Shoot her here, on my authority!
- It will take more than that. - I'm sure, you are right!
Take it down, repour it, rebuild it. Like she said.
We have more to see, but we have only one more hour of light.
Today is history.
Today will be remembered.
Years from now, the young will ask with wonder about this day.
Today is history, and you are part of it.
Six hundred years ago...
...when elsewhere they were putting the blame for the Black Death...
...Kazimiers The Great, so called...
...told the Jews they could come to Krakow.
- Chaja, bread. - They came.
Not that fat. No, less.
- They trundled their belongings into the city.
- Yes, a bit less. - They settled...
...they took hold. They prospered...
...in business, science, education, the arts.
They came here with nothing.
Nothing!
And they flourished.
For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow.
Think about that.
By this evening...
...those six centuries are a rumour.
They never happened.
Today is history!
Get off and line up in a two row!
Come on, quicker!
I think we will start, with Ghetto B.
- All right? - Start from both sides?
- No, no! I would like you to start there. - The right side?
- And then move around. - All right!
Label them clearly. They will follow you later on.
Leave your luggage!
Label them clearly.
They'll follow you later on.
- Open up! - Lakoom.
Come down!
Jews, all out!
Put on something warm and come out.
To Chodi Square!
Gold, Chaim! Go to Chodi Square.
- Gold, Chaim! - Yes, Chaim Gold.
Shoot him!
Put on something warm and go to Chodi Square.
No baggage! No baggage!
- Go through. - No baggage! No baggage!
Hey, little boy. How old are you, huh?
Huh, what's your name? What's your name, huh?
I said, no luggage!
Don't pack, no luggage!
Go to Chodi Square! Leave your luggage here!
- Blue card! - Chodi Square!
What's this bag doing here?
Everybody to Chodi Square!
We're getting out through the sewers. I have to check if they're clear.
- Mila, pack some things. Nothing bigger... - I can't go in the sewers.
I told you I won't go in the sewers.
You can go. Yes, you can.
I won't go in the sewers.
- Move! - Over there! Over there! Move!
Your card, Jew?
Your papers, Jew?
Your papers, Jew!
That line!
Your papers?
I'm not going up because of your goddamn papers!
Your goddamn papers!
Why are you shooting? Are you crazy?
In this traffic, you could have shot me!
The bullet passed me by so close!
- Sorry! - Now you say sorry? You're crazy!
Stay away! Stay away!
Don't talk, don't talk! Just go to the trucks!
Keep on walking, keep on walking! Don't talk!
Come here, you fuckin' Jew!
Stand still! I said, stand still!
She's good as dead. Leave her.
Give me a moment. Just let me bring her inside.
You can join her, or join the line.
- Women to the left! - Wilhelm! - Rose!
- Men to right. - Women to the left!
- Women to the left. - Let me go! I won't leave my husband!
Women to the left, and men to the right.
Your government is in the wrong country!
Mama! Mama!
Mila!
Oh, God, Danka!
- You have a blue card. - Blue card doesn't matter any more.
- They are cleaning out the ghetto. - There's not enough room for you.
What are you talking about? We tried it before. There's more than enough room.
- I changed my mind! - Mama!
Look at the space in there. Now look at me. You are just scared.
I can fit the girl, but not you.
- Mama, I'm coming out! - Stay where you are.
I'd rather you be here than who knows where.
Mama!
Commander!
Very good saluting.
I respectfully report I've been given orders to clear the bundles from the road.
So there will be no obstructions to the thoroughfare.
Finish and join the lines, little Polish clicking soldier.
Mrs. Dresner?
Yes.
Oh, you are a friend of my son's.
Don't worry, I'll go quietly. I'll be no trouble.
No, get under the stairs. They'll be done searching soon. You'll be safe there.
- Please hide! Please! - Warmed by the sun.
Hide under the stairs!
I've searched the building. There's no one here.
- Okay, then we're going to the next block. - Understood!
- Danka! - Mama!
Hello, Adam.
Hello, Danka.
Come with me. I will put you in the good line.
Do you know the saying, "An hour of life is still life"?
You are not a boy any more. I'm saying a blessing for you.
oh, the fire burns while the hours turn and the embers flow.
and the rabbi teaches all the little ones what they need to know
see now little ones, remember little ones, don't forget, now please
say it once and say it over once again all your a-b-c's
oh, the fire burns while the hours turn and the embers flow.
and the rabbi teaches all the little ones what they need to know
Oh, please, let's go. Let's go, please!
Come on!
see now little ones, remember little ones, don't forget, now please
say it once and say it over once again all your a-b-c's
Mark it...
...mark it!
- What is it? Is it Bach? - No, no. It's Mozart.
- Mozart? - Yes!
- Can we still manage today? - No way!
We can't manage it.
I wish this fucking night were over.
Appeal! Line up! In rows of five!
Line up!
Come on, in rows of five!
Caps off!
Sort the names!
Those who're announced will raise their hands and shout a clear "Yes"!
Yes!
- Keller, Fanni! - Yes!
- Adalbert, Hermann! - Yes!
- Faber, Dorothea! - Yes!
- Goldstein, Pola! - Yes!
- Warmberger, Markus! - Yes!
Edelstein, Max!
Disband!
The worst is over. We are workers now.
No excuses!
Oh, God, Amon!
Go to your barracks immediately!
Come here, come here!
Come on, come here!
Amon, you're such a damned fuckin' child!
Wakey, wakey.
- Make coffee. - Make it yourself.
The SS will manage certain industries itself inside Plaszow.
A metalworks, brush factory...
...another for reprocessing jewish clothing from the ghettos...
...for use by bombed-out families back home.
But it's private industry like yours that stands to benefit most...
...by moving inside the wire of Commandant Amon Goeth's camp...
No, no, no. Sit, sit. Julian, how are you?
Good to see you, my friend.
- Oskar Schindler. - Leo John.
- Franz, good to see you. - Hello, Oskar. Glad you could join us.
- My pleasure. Julius. - How are you? You lost weight.
Only in the shoulders. Please, everybody, sit down.
How are you doing? Oskar Schindler.
- We started without you. - Fine. I miss anything good?
I was explaining to Herr Bosch and Herr Madritsch...
...some of the benefits of moving their factories into Plaszow.
I meant the food.
Since your labour is housed on-site, it's available to you at all times.
You can work them all night if you want.
Your factory policies, whatever they've been in the past, they'll continue to be.
They'll be respected.
I have to know, where do you get a suit like that? What is that? Is that silk?
Of course!
Yeah, it's, it has a nice sheen about it.
- Thank you. - Very nice.
I'd say I'd get you one, but the man who made it is probably dead.
I don't know.
I go to work the other day.
Nobody's there.
Nobody tells me about this. I have to find out. I have to go in.
Everybody's gone.
No!
They're not gone. They're here.
They're mine! Every day that goes by, I'm losing money.
Every worker that is shot costs me money. I have to find somebody else.
I have to trade them!
We are going to be making so much money that none of this is going to matter.
It's bad business.
Thank you.
Leave the bottle.
Take that.
Lena, thank you.
Scherner told me something else about you.
Yeah? What's that?
That you know the meaning of the word "gratitude. "
That it's not some vague thing with you...
...like it is with others.
You want to stay where you are.
You've got things going on the side.
Things are good.
You don't want anybody telling you what to do.
I can understand all that, you know? I know you.
What you want... is your own sub-camp.
Do you have any idea what is involved? The paperwork alone?
You've got to build the fucking thing.
Getting the fucking permits is enough to drive you crazy.
Then the engineers show up, they stand around...
they argue about drainage, foundations...
...codes, exact specifications,
fences 4 kilometres long, 1,200 kilograms of barbed wire...
...6,000 kilograms of electrified fences, ceramic insulators...
...three cubic metres of air space per prisoner.
I'm telling you, you want to shoot somebody. I've been through it. I know.
Well, you know. You've been through it.
You could make things easier for me.
I'd be grateful.
Clear the road!
Keep moving! Keep moving!
- Keep moving! - Turn left!
Where's Stern?
Goldberg and Chilowicz, make sure I see my cut...
...from the, uh, factory owners in this camp...
...leaving you to take care of my main account...
...the Schindler account.
He wants his independence. I gave it to him.
But independence costs money.
This you understand?
Look at me!
Don't forget who you are working for now.
- Yes!
- Make sure he stays. He's a slippery bastard!
Yes! Now, girls, everyone.
- We need more wine. - More wine!
Stand on my friend. Don't let him leave.
- What happens in life... - Cheers, cheers!
Thank you, Mr. Director.
Cheers, Mr. Director!
- What are you doing? - What? Scratching my head.
Makes them think we have lice. Helps make them keep their distance.
- Do you have lice? - Do you have your notebook?
The calendar on my desk has the birthdays of our SS friends' wives and children.
Don't forget to send something.
Record pay-offs to the Main Administration and Economics Office, the Armaments...
- Slowly, Stern, slowly. - The Armaments Board...
...Governor General's Division of the Interior and Chief of Police as "fees"...
...and make them on the first of each month...
...as opposed to individual pay-offs to our SS contacts.
The list is in the lower drawer of my desk...
- ... which you... - "First of month... "
SS contacts: List, lower drawer of my desk, which you handle...
...as cash contributions to legitimate charities sent to each official's office.
Dealings with our black market contacts, listed as suppliers...
- ... in the legitimate ledger, are more complicated.
- Forget it!
- What do you mean, you can't forget it! - It gives me a headache!
- I couldn't get you out of here. - I'll be all right.
Anyway, I'm here almost every week. Wednesdays, usually.
I'll look in on you, see how you're doing.
Here, put these in your pocket.
Come on!
Mr. Director, don't let things fall apart. I've worked too hard.
Thanks for... Good luck!
Attention! Caps off!
- Work! - Back to work!
- What are you making? - Hinges, sir!
Yeah, I've got some workers coming in tomorrow. Where are they from again?
Yugoslavia, Mr. Commander!
I've got to make room.
- Make me a hinge. - Yes, sir!
Keep going, you're doing well.
Says he's doing well.
Oh, that's very good.
But I'm a bit confused, and perhaps you can help me.
What I don't understand is that you've been working...
.. since I think, what, about 6.00 this morning?
Yet such a small pile of hinges.
- Oh, Christ. - May I try that, sir?
Check the angle lever. Maybe it's bent.
No, no. You wouldn't hear a click if it was the angle lever.
- Maybe the pin shaft is greasy. - Yeah, come on.
What did I just say? Here.
Mr. Commander!
I beg to report that my heap of hinges was so unsatisfactory...
...because the machines were being recalibrated this morning.
I was put on to shoveling coal.
Strange, huh?
Yeah!
Thank you, Muek.
Ah, Lisiek. Don't touch the leather, it's just been oiled.
- Squad leader! - Oh, for me?
- Oh, thank you very much, Mr Director. - Mr. Director!
Mr. Director!
He was making hinges slowly.
So the man can turn out a hinge in less than a minute. Why the long story?
- Thank you, sir. - You're welcome!
- Nobody knows who stole the chicken? - Tell him about the chicken.
A man walks around with a chicken and nobody notices this.
Save yourselves.
Tell him about the chicken.
Still nobody knows?
It was you! You committed this crime!
- No, sir. - But you know who, though.
- Yes. - Who?
Him!
- He's very gifted. - Yeah, sure. Bring him over.
Sir, thank you.
- Thank you again, Mr. Director! - You're welcome again.
It's an honour to work for such a great company.
It's great to have you!
I promise to learn everything there's to know about enamelware production.
That's great!
- Hello? Miss Elsa Krause is here. - I only need five minutes.
She wants to speak to Mr. Director.
Yes.
He won't see you.
Please, sit down.
- Pernod? Cognac? - Uh, no. No, thank you.
So, what can I do for you?
They say that no one dies here.
They say your factory is a haven.
They say you are good.
Who says that?
Everyone.
My name is Regina Perlman, not Elsa Krause.
I've been living in Krakow on false papers since the ghetto massacre.
My parents are in Plaszow.
Their names are Chana and Jakob Perlman.
They are older people. They are killing older people now in Plaszow.
They bury them up in the forest. Look...
...I don't have any money.
I, I borrowed these clothes.
I'm begging you.
Please, please bring them here.
I don't do that.
You've been misled. I ask one thing:
Whether or not a worker has certain skills.
My father is an importer, not a metalworker.
Such activities are illegal. You will not entrap me!
Cry, and I will have you arrested. I swear to God!
People die. It's a fact of life.
He wants to kill everybody? Great! What am I supposed to do about it?
Bring everybody over? Is that what you think?
Send them over to Schindler. Send them all!
His place is a haven, didn't you know? It's not a factory.
It's not an enterprise of any kind.
It's a haven for rabbis and orphans...
...and people with no skills whatsoever!
You think I don't know what you're doing?
You're so quiet all the time. I know, I know!
- Are you losing money? - That's not the point!
- What other point is... - It's dangerous! It's dangerous to me!
You have to understand. Goeth is under enormous pressure.
You have to think of it in his situation.
He's got this whole place to run.
He's responsible for everything here, all these people.
He's got a lot of things to worry about.
And he's got the war which brings out the worst in people.
Never the good, always the bad. Always the bad.
But in normal circumstances he wouldn't be like this. He'd be all right.
There'd just be the good aspects of him which...
He's a wonderful crook.
A man who loves good food, good wine, the ladies, making money...
Killing!
He can't enjoy it.
Bejski told me the other day, somebody escaped...
...from a work detail outside the wire.
Goeth lined up everybody from the missing man's barracks.
He shot the man to the left of Bejski, the man to the right of him.
He walked down the line shooting every other man with a pistol.
Twenty-five!
- What do you want me to do about it? - Nothing, nothing.
We're just talking.
"Perlman. "
Perlman!
Husband and wife.