Author

Publication

2002-09-18 - St. Martin's Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCDS135.P63 L54513 2002
  • LCCDS135.P63L54513 2002

Description

"In a movie that tears at your heart there is one moment in particular you will never forget. Filmed entirely in black and white, Schindler's List contains one spot of color, and it appears when the Jews in the Krakow Ghetto are being rounded up and deported to the camps. At one point you watch this panorama of horror from a distance, and your eye (and Schindler's) follows the figure of a girl in a bright red coat. She seems lost, then suddenly purposeful, first skipping distractedly, then cowering in terror: beautiful, helpless, miraculous, perilously fragile - the spark of life itself - and finally...gone forever.". "When Roma Ligocka was invited to the film's premiere in Poland, she had no idea what to expect. What could Steven Spielberg know about the Holocaust? Yet when she saw that spot of color, Ligocka was suddenly overwhelmed. She had been the same age as the girl during the days of the Krakow Ghetto, and she had worn a strawberry red coat her grandmother had made for her. Eerily, almost unimaginably, more than depicting history the film was reflecting her life. She felt that she had been - that she still was - the girl in the red coat."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The Hotel Negresco in Nice on France's Cote d'Azur presides over the Promenade des Anglais like an enormous white ship.

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  • The Girl in the Red CoatHardcoverSt. Martin's Press2002-09-18

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