The government lifted a ban Wednesday on the Holocaust film "Schindler's List," which Malaysian censors had rejected as Zionist propaganda.
The Cabinet added, however, that the Steven Spielberg movie still would be subject to censorship "in accordance with normal guide-lines."The decision means the Academy Award-winning film will undergo a review by the Film Censorship Board, which originally banned it, and could be subject to cuts, particularly of scenes depicting sex and violence.
It remains uncertain whether the film will ever be screened in Malaysia because Spielberg has insisted it be shown in its entirety.
The decision to ban it was criticized by Jewish groups in Australia and the United States, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
In a letter to the movie's distributor, the film board had said it decided to ban it because it was "propaganda with the purpose of asking for sympathy (for Jews) as well as to tarnish the other race," presumably Germans.