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INT. HOTEL ROOM - CRACOW, POLAND – NIGHT

The song plays from a radio on a rust-stained sink. The light in the room is dismal, the furniture cheap. The curtains are faded, the wallpaper peeling ... but the clothes laid out across the single bed are beautiful. The hands of a man button the shirt, belt the slacks. He slips into the double-breasted jacket, knots the silk tie, folds a handkerchief and tucks it into the jacket pocket, all with great deliberation. A bureau. Some currency, cigarettes, liquor, passport. And an elaborate gold-on-black enamel Hakenkreuz (or swastika) which the gentleman pins to the lapel of his elegant dinner jacket. He steps back to consider his reflection in the mirror. He likes what he sees: Oskar Schindler - salesman from Zwittau - looking almost reputable in his one nice suit.

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Even in this awful room. (extract from script)

This shows schindler as a man more concerned with how he appears then how he lives. He shows that he can make him self seem quite wealthy even though judging by his surroundings he is not.;

In the next scene he is in a crowded night-club in Poland he scans the room looking for opportunities. He notices a lieutenant at the table with his girlfriend and a Sargent. He buys them drinks the lieutenant asks if he knows him apparently not. The Sargent goes to see who he is and ...

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