Oskar Schindler them; there was no choice." In 1951, Poldek Pfefferberg approached director Fritz Lang and asked him to consider making a film about Schindler. Also on Pfefferberg's initiative, in 1964 Schindler received a $20,000 advance from MGM for a proposed film treatment titled "To the Last Hour". Neither film was ever made, and Schindler quickly spent the money he received from MGM. He was also approached in the 1960s by MCA of Germany and Walt Disney Productions in Vienna, but again nothing came of these projects. In 1980, Australian author Thomas Keneally by chance visited Pfefferberg's luggage store in Beverly Hills
Emil Jakob Schindler commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death. Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (April 27, 1842 – August 9, 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in Fischamend, a village south of Vienna, since the 17th Century. His father, Julius Jakob Schindler (1814–1846), died of lung cancer when Emil was only four years old. His mother, Maria Anna (1816-1885) soon afterwards took him to Pressburg (Bratislava). Three years later, she married Second Lieutenant (soon Captain), Mathias Eduard