Main music theme composed by John Williams for the very moving film "Schindler's List", directed and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film, which became one of the most successful in the cinema history, is an epic historical drama based on the non-fiction novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally. The true story took place in Poland during the World War II where Oscar Schindler, a German industrialist, managed to save more than a thousand of Jewish refugees from certain death.
When Steven Spielberg showed John Williams the script for "Schindler's List", the composer felt it would be too challenging to score. He said to Spielberg: "You need a better composer than I am for this film". Spielberg replied, "I know. But they're all dead!" Williams managed to create music which evokes the traditional Jewish music of Central Europe and is so emotional and heart-wrenching that has brought tears to millions of auditors and spectators. To this success contributed the great interpretation by violinist Itzhac Perlman, who played the violin with extreme passion and magnified the expressive power of the music and the film.