Schindler's List (France 3)

Broadcast tonight on France 3 on Steven Spielberg's flim 'Schindler's List "aired tonight on France 3 is based on a true story, that of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who during World War II saved the life of many Jews. On almost documentary realism, the film traces the multi-Oscar-winning journey of a hero usually faced the unspeakable, both witness and actor in history.

An engineer, Oskar Schindler made several trips in 1939 in Poland on behalf of the German secret service and then in October of that year, moved to Krakow, where he ran a factory that specializes in products enamel. With its action, the Jews employed there escaped the fate they reserved the Nazis. When in 1944 the Soviet advance forced the Germans to move their victims to Auschwitz, he obtained his plant was transplanted in Czechoslovakia and moved to its workers.

After the war, he took care of a ranch in Argentina (1949-1957), went bankrupt and returned to Germany. In 1961 he was invited to Israel, where a plaque was unveiled on his birthday, he received the Cross of Merit in 1966, a state pension in 1968 and the title of "Righteous among the Nations" in 1993. Died in 1974, he was buried at Mount Zion Christian cemetery in Jerusalem. A novel by Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark ("Schindler's Ark," 1982), adapted for the screen under the title of the film aired tonight, made known his action to the public.

Schindler's List, Steven Speilberg of. Thursday, January 19th at 20:35 on France 3.