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Brit actor Ralph Fiennes, who was brilliant as SS commander Amon Goeth in “Schindler’s List,” recently spoke at a discussion titled “The Power of Film And The Holocaust” at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Fiennes recalled his first fitting in the SS uniform in his trailer on the Krakow set of the Academy Award-winning Steven Spielberg film. “The uniform is designed to have an impact,” he said.
Aside from “Schindler’s List,” Mr. Fiennes played the role of a Jewish Holocaust victim in the film “Sunshine” and a lawyer in a romantic entanglement with an SS prison guard in “The Reader.”
“You feel wiped out after playing these scenes, you feel empty,” he said.
Sara Bloomfield, the museum’s director, noted that the Holocaust remains a popular cinematic theme. Eight of the 65 films submitted for Oscar consideration in the foreign film category last year dealt with World War II or the Holocaust.