But amidst a movie full of powerfully and emotionally devastating events, there is one symbolic and piercing character that stands out, a little girl wearing bright red coat in an otherwise bleak, single-tone landscape (though brilliantly shot by the Polish DP Januz Kaminski).
As one of only four color images in the epic film, she stands out for both Oskar and the audience, especially in the scene where he recognizes her body buried amidst a pile of corpses.
She’s the symbolic, long-lasting blood-stained coloring on his hands.
The film features some 20,000 extras, which put strain on the costume department.
Spielberg originally approached Roman Polanski to direct, not realizing that Polanski had lived in the Krakow ghetto. At another phase, Scorsese was set to helm the gloom amd doom tale.
Spielberg used the film to fulfill his requirements when he belatedly completed his film degree at Cal State Long Beach, begun in the 1970s.
