Schindler's List Trivia Questions

The film includes at least two color sequences: the opening Shabbat candle scene and the girl in the red coat.

The red coat was a cinematic device by Spielberg to represent the Holocaust's horror. She is not a specific real person, though inspired by a witness account.

Spielberg felt he wasn't mature enough as a filmmaker and tried to pass the project to Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese before finally taking it on himself.

The film's epilogue shows the real Schindlerjuden placing stones on Oskar Schindler's grave alongside the actors who portrayed them.

The Plaszow camp was too overgrown and altered. The crew built a replica camp nearby, though they did film at the real Auschwitz-Birkenau gates.

The production was shot on location in Kraków, Poland, and other Polish cities, where the real events took place.

Schindler joined the Nazi Party in 1939 and also worked as a spy for German military intelligence, which helped him build connections to protect Jews.

The piano scene was scripted. Fiennes did, however, improvise some disturbing moments, like a casual violent gesture, to unnerve the cast.