Amon Göth

There were moments of kindness that would move across his eyes and then instantly run cold." Fiennes put on 28 pounds to play the role.

He watched historic newsreels and talked to Holocaust survivors who knew Goethe.

In portraying him, Fiennes said, quote, I got close to his pain.

Inside him is a fractured, miserable human being.

Sorry for him.

He's like some dirty battered doll I was given and that I came to feel particularly attached to.

Dr. Samuel J. Listet and Paul Linkowski of the Université Libraire de Bruxelles described Goethe's character in the film as a classic psychopath.

Fiennes looked so much like Goethe in costume that when Holocaust survivor Mila Pfefferberg met him, she trembled with fear.

Uh, for example, Schindler's List really wants to tell this compelling story about Schml- about, about Schindler and trying to, to rescue people and the, the incredible risks that, that Schindler took on.

And in Schindler's List, the main antagonist is Amon Goeth, who was a real guy and whose camp was a real camp.

And there are conscious decisions made in the presentation of that camp and the presentation of Amon Goeth because it had to be scaled down-

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... or a general audience would just simply not believe it, or it would not be able to be shown.

Um, w-

The, the only thing, the only thing I know for sure is it has cinema's greatest villain, a man who is right up there with, uh, Amon Göth from Schindler's List, [laughs] who is up there with all the, all the greats.

Kurt.

Kurt.

Yeah.

But no, I absolutely had so much fun watching this movie.

Um, I, I could have sworn I had seen Kurt, the villainous Kurt, uh, somewhere before, but I think he just happens to look like somebody I follow on YouTube.

Uh, but it was killing me 'cause, like, he has such a distinct face-