The film was publicly praised by many filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg who said The Zone of Interest was the best film about the Holocaust since his film Schindler's List (1993), "It's doing a lot of good work in raising awareness, especially about the banality of evil."
The Zone of Interest offers a unique perspective on the Holocaust, blending domestic drama with the horrors of Auschwitz through sound. Jonathan Glazer uses industrial sounds to juxtapose the banality of evil with everyday life, forcing viewers to confront complicity.
“The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-nominated historical drama, is technically a film about the Holocaust. The film centers on the real-life Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, who live bucolic and seemingly mundane lives next door to the infamous concentration camp.
The Zone of Interest is among the most audacious movies of last year — a radical experiment in perspective, limiting the audience's vantage on atrocities while adopting that of the people perpetrating them.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best sound, which it won; best director, which Christopher Nolan received for best picture winner “Oppenheimer;” and adapted screenplay, which went to Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction." Hüller was nominated for best actress for “Anatomy of a Fall,” but the ...
Making Of THE ZONE OF INTEREST - Behind The Scenes Talk With Sandra Hüller & Christian Friedel
Was Zone of Interest filmed at Auschwitz?
Behind the Scenes on 'The Zone of Interest': Oscar-tipped Movie filmed at Auschwitz. It's a harrowing look at the banality of evil - 'The Zone of Interest' by British director Jonathan Glazer is nominated for five Oscars and tipped to win the Best International Film Academy Award.
Christian Friedel stars as Rudolf Höss alongside Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss. Development of the film began in 2014 around the publication of the Amis novel, which is itself based partially on real events.
Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, One Life tells the story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London stock broker, who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 children from the Nazis.
LOS ANGELES -- The harrowing Holocaust drama " The Zone of Interest," which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won Academy Awards for best international film.
In “The Zone of Interest,” Glazer doesn't simply tell a story; in his use of art-film conventions he provides a specific frame through which to watch it. This is clearly part of its attraction as is the breathing space his approach creates: it is scary, but not too.
The horrifying images and sounds of slaughter are reduced to mere background elements, presented with immaculate cinematography and sound design. The Zone of Interest is an immensely disturbing watch, but also a necessary one.
Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest stars Sandra Hüller as the 'Queen of Auschwitz' in icy cold look at the holocaust. The reeds by the river sway and shiver.
“The Zone of Interest takes the most unlikely of stands towards female autonomy and gender equity: Women can be just as callous, just as brutal, as men. If Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest wants one thing, it's for its audience to sit in abject discomfort.
We were bound and fettered to that other world, and we should have disappeared with it." Instead, Hedwig and the children were taken to the home of the children's old governess, who lived at Michaelisdonn, while Höss and his son Klaus continued on alone.
One of the 10 nominees for the Best Picture Oscar is the Holocaust drama "The Zone Of Interest." It's about the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, which was also the setting for Steven Spielberg's classic "Schindler's List" and the recent Hungarian film "Son Of Saul." But British director Jonathan Glazer set out to make a ...
To protect Denmark's Jews from the horror of Nazi concentration camps, Karl Koster and his family begin the heroic, but dangerous, task of deceiving the Nazis and hiding Jewish families.
Based on actual events, “The Grey Zone” is the staggeringly powerful story of the Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive “Special Squads” of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to kill fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Schindler's List is widely revered as one the greatest films ever made. It received twelve Academy Award nominations and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Is 'The Zone of Interest' based on a true story? Yes and no. Rudolf Höss was a real-life German SS officer who lived in a house right outside of Auschwitz with his wife Hedwig and their children, though the film is a dramatization of their lives.
Bystroń-Kołodziejczyk was the inspiration for the night-vision scenes in Zone which show a young girl secretly leaving food for prisoners in Auschwitz.
The property is as central a character to “The Zone of Interest” as its inhabitants. It still exists in real life, though it belongs to a different family.
