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You're right, Marcel Golberg is in the names on list train boarding scene. Don't know what happened to Regina Perlman's parents.
It wasn't Goldberg. The last we see him is wearing the watch bribe to bring over the Perlmans. He's not seen or mentioned in the 2nd half of the movie. In historical reality, Goldberg did provide the names that were eventually combined into a single list typed by Goeth's secretary Mietek Pemper.
According to the novel Goldberg had connections outside of the labor camp. When he was able to leave Brinnlitz, he picked up his loot in Cracow - the bribes, and in the end diamonds for putting names on the list, and fled to Brazil as fast as he could.
Just before he sees the girl dead, the screen shows this:
[quote]CHUJOWA GORKA, APRIL, 1944
Department D orders Goeth to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 10,000 Jews killed at Plaszow and the Krakow Ghetto massacre.[/quote]
So it's possible that the girl in red survived the ghetto massacre, and died later in or near the Plaszow labor camp. He recognizes the remote possibility that even his obscene gold pin with the swastika could have been used as a bribe to save her. It was close to his heart all along. The movie's official poster shows his subconscious, imagined saving of the girl in red, hand in hand. Earlier, when the woman comes to his office to ask him to save her parents, there's a reflection of a flame on the factory floor over his heart. The gold pin is right there next to it. His heart was burning to save the girl in red, whom he had seen earlier, but he didn't think of using the gold pin as a bribe until after it was too late.
The ending is misunderstood by those who think it's too schmaltzy. It's thought of as the "I could have done more, boo-hoo" scene. That does sound corny, but the scene is actually deeper than that, and the emotion is certainly earned, warranted.
Listen to the dialog carefully... this is how I understand the deeper ending, after watching the movie many times over 25 years: Oskar Schindler's terrible regret begins when Itzhak Stern says "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire". This hits Schindler hard enough that he drops the ring, because one person's life in particular enters his mind. When the movie begins he puts on the gold lapel pin. At the end he takes it off. Those scenes are bookends. He removes the gold pin, stares at it and breaks down after he says: "This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it; at least one. He would have given me one, one more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. I could have gotten... one more person and I didn't. And I didn't!" So from getting more out if he made more money, to getting ten out if he sold the car, to getting two out or getting just one out if he used the gold pin as a bribe, he says the words for one person six times (count them). That person is the girl in the red coat, the reason why Schindler breaks down and exits the movie utterly distraught.
When the banner ads load in the web player it can interrupt the music, so I enabled Ad Blocker. Advertising-supported websites hate Ad Blocker and some of them send up messages complaining about it, saying I can't use their website unless I disable Ad Blocker. Not so Spotify though, it will let me use the web player with Ad Blocker enabled, without complaining or threatening me. There is always the "Install App" download link on the web player, I don't know why I would want to install the app.
The Cranes Are Flying (Criterion; war homefront; starring the 'Russian Audrey Hepburn')
The Most Beautiful Wife (Twilight Time limited edition Blu-ray; crime, Mafia, politics; isolated Morricone score)
Maborosi (yet another film about a Japanese woman who represses her emotions, but this one is good)
About Elly (holiday outing by the sea changes tone; the woman on the DVD box cover is not Elly)
The Official Story (the political awakening of an upper middle class wife and mother)
FilmStruck is delighting me because restoration work shows up there fast, making the corresponding DVDs obsolete. I have dual layer DVDR's of "Black Narcissus" and "I Know Where I'm Going" but restoration work has been done and they look better on FilmStruck. "The Passionate Friends" is now up, nicely restored.
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