Q 01/05

The film is based on a 1982 book by Thomas Keneally. What is it called?

A) Schindler's Ark

B) The Righteous Man

C) Schindler's Jews

D) The Enamel Factory

Answer · why

A) Schindler's Ark

Keneally wrote it after a chance meeting in Los Angeles in 1980 with one of the survivors, who had spent decades trying to get the story told.

Q 02/05

Who plays Oskar Schindler?

A) Ralph Fiennes

B) Liam Neeson

C) Ben Kingsley

D) Kenneth Branagh

Answer · why

B) Liam Neeson

Spielberg cast the relatively unknown Neeson after seeing him in Anna Christie on Broadway, preferring him to interested stars like Kevin Costner and ...

Q 03/05

Who plays the SS officer Amon Göth?

A) Gary Oldman

B) Jonathan Pryce

C) Daniel Day-Lewis

D) Ralph Fiennes

Answer · why

D) Ralph Fiennes

Fiennes gained 28 pounds for the role and looked so much like Göth that survivor Mila Pfefferberg trembled when she met him in costume.

Q 04/05

Ben Kingsley plays Itzhak Stern. What is Stern's role in Schindler's business?

A) His factory foreman

B) His lawyer

C) His accountant

D) His chauffeur

Answer · why

C) His accountant

The film's Stern is a composite of the real accountant, factory manager Abraham Bankier and Göth's secretary Mietek Pemper; Dustin Hoffman turned the ...

Q 05/05

What does Schindler's Kraków factory produce at the start of the film?

A) Ammunition

B) Uniforms

C) Enamelware

D) Canned food

Answer · why

C) Enamelware

He bribes Wehrmacht and SS officials to acquire it; the real Emalia factory is now a museum that Kraków opened in 2010.