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You are hellbound, and will likely be hanged, burned, or left to rot in a filthy prison until you die. May the dark shadows cloak you in their wretched embrace. Oskar Schindler, a Nazi party member, used his pull within the party to save the lives of more than Jewish individuals by recruiting them to work in his Polish factory. In October , Australian novelist Thomas Keneally had stopped into a leather goods shop off of Rodeo Drive after a book tour stopover from a film festival in Sorrento, Italy, where one of his books was adapted into a movie. Page gave Keneally photocopies of documents related to Schindler, including speeches, firsthand accounts, testimonies, and the actual list of names of the people he saved.

Page whose real name was Poldek Pfefferberg ended up becoming a consultant on the film. Gosch told the story to her husband, who agreed to produce a film version, even going so far as hiring Casablanca co-screenwriter Howard Koch to write the script. Koch and Gosch began interviewing Schindler Jews in and around the Los Angeles area, and even Schindler himself, before the project stalled, leaving the story unknown to the public at large. Seven lists in all were made by Oskar Schindler and his associates during the war, while four are known to still exist.

Eventually the studio bought the rights to the book, and when Page met with Spielberg to discuss the story, the director promised the Holocaust survivor that he would make the film adaptation within 10 years. The project languished for over a decade because Spielberg was reluctant to take on such serious subject matter.

So he tried to recruit other directors to make the film. He first approached director Roman Polanski , a Holocaust survivor whose own mother was killed in Auschwitz. Polanski declined, but would go on to make his own film about the Holocaust, The Pianist , which earned him a Best Director Oscar in Spielberg then offered the movie to director Sydney Pollack, who also passed.

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The job was then offered to legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese , who accepted. Make the lucrative summer movie first, they said, and then he could go and make his passion project. Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson auditioned for the role of Oskar Schindler, and actor Warren Beatty was far enough along in the process that he even made it as far as a script reading. For the role, Spielberg cast then relatively unknown Irish actor Liam Neeson, whom the director had seen in a Broadway play called Anna Christie. Besides having Neeson listen to recordings of Schindler, the director also told him to study the gestures of former Time Warner chairman Steven J.

In order to gain a more personal perspective on the film, Spielberg traveled to Poland before principal photography began to interview Holocaust survivors and visit the real-life locations that he planned to portray in the movie. The production was also allowed to shoot scenes outside the gates of Auschwitz. A symbol of innocence in the movie, the little girl in the red coat who appears during the liquidation of the ghetto in the movie was based on a real person.

In the film, the little girl is played by actress Oliwia Dabrowska, who—at the age of three—promised Spielberg that she would not watch the film until she was 18 years old. She allegedly watched the movie when she was 11, breaking her promise, and spent years rejecting the experience. I had to grow up to watch the film. The actual girl in the red coat was named Roma Ligocka; a survivor of the Krakow ghetto, she was known amongst the Jews living there by her red winter coat.

Ligocka, now a painter who lives in Germany, later wrote a biography about surviving the Holocaust called The Girl in the Red Coat. For a better sense of reality, Spielberg originally wanted to shoot the movie completely in Polish and German using subtitles, but he eventually decided against it because he felt that it would take away from the urgency and importance of the images onscreen. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.

Everyone else lobbied against the idea, saying that it would stylize the Holocaust. Spielberg and Kaminski chose to shoot the film in a grimy, unstylish fashion and format inspired by German Expressionist and Italian Neorealist films. Neeson and Ralph Fiennes were both nominated for their performances, and the film also received nods for Costume Design, Makeup, and Sound. The director re-enrolled in secret, and gained his remaining credits by writing essays and submitting projects under a pseudonym. In honor of the film's 25th anniversary, it's currently back in theaters.

But Spielberg believes that the film may be even more important for today's audiences to see. Citing the spike in hate crimes targeting religious minorities since , he said, "Hate's less parenthetical today, it's more a headline. As an able-bodied man, Szpilman becomes a slave-worker for the Nazi machine, helping the resistance all along. Inside locked apartments, he starves, gets seriously ill and feels generally powerless about the destruction around him.

Eventually he escapes and hides in the attic of an abandoned house but is discovered by Nazi officer Hosenfelt, who lets him stay there. After the war, Szpilman resumes his career as a classical pianist. The film manages to distill the essence of the horrific Nazi posture towards their perceived enemies and the Jewish struggle against the brutality of their oppressors into a quintessential story.

Polanski pulls an extraordinary trick here, making a movie that tells a well-documented story and yet it seems so fresh. Most disturbing still, it is to think that the willingness to commit acts of cruelty that violate our most sacred principles might stem from the same human instinct to conform. They are made to lay down on the ground and, one by one, are executed with a shot in the head.

Before shooting the last man, the Nazi runs out of bullets and as he changes his pistol cartridge, the man laying on the ground just looks expectant, motionless, waiting to be killed. And at this moment, the awareness arises. Sitting behind a computer screen in the comfortable 21st Century, I dare raise rational questions out of a cataclysm in human history when the only rational response would be to despair. Suzy returns to the school and finds the rest of the students are attending the Bolshoi Ballet. She promptly disposes of her food and wine, which she suspects are drugged. Suzy follows the sound of footsteps to Madame Blanc's office, where she discovers a mural of irises painted on the wall.

Turning one of the irises results in a secret door opening to a concealed part of the school. Suzy explores the hidden passage and overhears Madame Blanc and the school staff plotting her demise.

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Blanc's nephew, Albert, spots Suzy and alerts a servant, Pavlo, to her presence. Suzy finds Sara's disfigured body pinned to a casket, and hides in another room. Suzy realizes someone else is in the room sleeping; she deduces it is Helena Markos, who has been pretending to be the school's director the whole time. She accidentally awakens Markos, who taunts her invisibly and summons Sara's reanimated body to murder her. However, the contours of Markos' body are revealed by flashes of lightning, and Suzy takes the opportunity to stab her through the neck with a glass peacock quill, killing her and banishing Sara's body.

The school begins to crumble around Suzy, who watches as Madame Blanc, Miss Tanner, and the rest of Markos' coven perish along with her. She escapes into the rainy night, and leaves smiling as the academy is destroyed in a fire. It's something that exists. Daria Nicolodi helped Argento write the screenplay for the film, which combined the occult themes that interested Argento with fairytales that were inspiring to Nicolodi, such as Bluebeard , Pinocchio , and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. American actress Jessica Harper was cast in the lead role of American ballet dancer Suzy Banyon, [10] after attending an audition via the William Morris Agency.

Argento requested Italian actress Stefania Casini for the supporting role of Sara, a request which she obliged, having been an admirer of his films. Suspiria is noteworthy for several stylistic flourishes that have become Argento trademarks, particularly the use of set-piece structures that allow the camera to linger on pronounced visual elements. The production design and cinematography emphasize vivid primary colors , particularly red, creating a deliberately unrealistic, nightmarish setting, emphasized by the use of imbibition Technicolor prints.

Commenting on the film's lush colors, Argento said:. The imbibition process, used for The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind , is much more vivid in its color rendition than emulsion-based release prints, therefore enhancing the nightmarish qualities of the film Argento intended to evoke.

Argento also expressed disappointment over the fact that Harper's voice, which he liked, was not heard in the Italian market because she was dubbed in Italian by another actress.

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The dubbing was overseen by Ted Rusoff , a prolific voiceover artist based in Rome who supervised English-language dubbing for numerous European genre films including Argento's follow-up to Suspiria , Inferno. The Italian prog-rock band Goblin composed most of the film's score in collaboration with Argento himself. In the film's opening credits, they are referred to as "The Goblins".

The main title theme was named as one of the best songs released between —79 in the book The Pitchfork Suspiria was released in Italy on 1 February The website's critical consensus states: Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote a mixed review, saying the film had "slender charms, though they will most assuredly be lost on viewers who are squeamish.

Like Siskel, Bruce McCabe of The Boston Globe likened the film to The Exorcist and The Sentinel , ultimately deeming it "a fitful, uneven piece of work too often more uncontrolled than the hysteria it's trying to create. Hoberman of The Village Voice gave a positive review as well, he calls it "a movie that makes sense only to the eye". Suspiria may prove to be the most harrowing shocker ever filmed. In the years since its release, Suspiria has been cited by critics as a cult film.

Horror Cinema in Europe Since the , the film is noted for being an "exemplar of Eurohorror The Village Voice ranked Suspiria on their list of the greatest films made in the 20th century.

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This release, which was a limited edition run restricted to 60, units, features a THX -certified video master of the film, with a second disc consisting of a minute documentary and other bonus material; the third disc is a CD consisting of the original film score. A standard single-disc edition was released by Anchor Bay the following month. On 19 December , the independent home media distributor Synapse Films released the film for the first time on Blu-ray in the United States in a limited steelbook package.

Three bands—the Norwegian thrash-metal band Susperia ; a pioneering mids UK gothic rock band; and the witch-house project Mater Suspiria Vision—have named themselves after the film.

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Several albums have also used the title, including an album by gothic metal band Darkwell , an album by Darkwave band Miranda Sex Garden and Suspiria de Profundis by Die Form , which can also be regarded as inspired by Thomas De Quincey's work of the same title. In the comedy film Juno , Suspiria is considered by the title character to be the goriest film ever made, until she is shown The Wizard of Gore and changes her mind, saying it is actually gorier than Suspiria.

The film's music has been imitated and sampled by various artists, including Ministry in the track "Psalm 69" from their album Psalm Constant Companion that features a strings rendition of the Suspiria theme; the track's title also appears to be a reference to the band Goblin. In books by Simon R. Green , mentions are often made of a "Black Forest Dance Academy" in Germany, a place where witches and Satanists gather, a possible reference to Suspiria.

The American death metal band Infester included a sample from the film in their song, "Chamber of Reunion", from their album To the Depths, In Degradation The film is also mentioned in the episode "The Seminar" of The Office season 7. It is mentioned, and featured in Kirby Reed's horror film collection in the horror film Scream 4 Suspiria is featured in the documentary film Terror in the Aisles