The Zone of Interest

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Nazi Family Life Unveiled: 'The Zone of Interest' Film Review

Auschwitz - Concentration camps - Film reviews - Holocaust - Nazism

Discover the captivating portrayal of Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his family's life amidst a backdrop of horror in 'The Zone of Interest'.

I filmen 'The Zone of Interest' portrætteres nazistiske kommandant Rudolf Höss og hans familie i en usædvanlig fortælling om hverdagslivet ved Auschwitz. Rystet af brutaliteten og intense skildringer af Holocaust-historien bliver seerne taget med på en rejse ind i Höss-familiens liv - en blanding af banalitet og gru. Instruktøren, Jonathan Glazer, formår at skabe et tankevækkende og diskussionsvækkende værk, der udfordrer publikums syn på nazisternes liv og ondskab.

Glazers film - baseret løst på Martin Amis' roman - udforsker det skræmmende liv hos Rudolf Höss og hans kone Hedwig. Fra den rådige tilværelse til groteske detaljer fra Auschwitz danner filmen et komplekst portræt af en familie på kanten af helvede. 'The Zone of Interest' indfanger rå kraft gennem sin autentiske skildring af nazisternes hverdag, hvilket har gjort den til et kontroversielt og tankevækkende værk.

Med en blanding af historisk nøjagtighed og fiktive elementer fordyber filmen seerne i nazisternes verden, hvor grusomheder og hverdagsliv flettes sammen på chokerende vis. 'The Zone of Interest' formår at skabe et billede af ondskabens grusomhed og nådesløshed, der efterlader et dybtgående indtryk hos alle, der oplever den. En film, der ikke kun underholder, men også tvinger publikum til at konfrontere fortidens mørke kapitler.

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'The Zone Of Interest': Nazis, They're Just Like Us [Film Review ... (Louisville Eccentric Observer)

Nazi Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) is a commandant at the German Reich's enormous complex of more than 40 concentration and extermination camps. Located ...

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How Do You Rebuild a Nazi's House? (Curbed)

This proximity is historically accurate; the Höss family lived just outside the gates of Auschwitz. To film, Glazer wanted to plant cameras in a house that was ...

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'The Zone of Interest' powerfully depicts a Nazi family's cushy life in ... (Chicago Sun-Times)

Film review: The banal routine of commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife and children contrasts with the horrors happening next door.

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'Zone of Interest' Star Christian Friedel Reflects on 'Intense' Nazi Role (Variety)

The Dresden, Germany-based actor and musician fashioned Rudolf Höss as an executive on the rise: he's a snappy dresser who's efficient and knows how to get the ...

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'The Zone of Interest': Tending to the flowers fertilized in the shadow ... (Cambridge Day)

“The Zone of Interest” is Glazer's very loose adaptation of the novel by Martin Amis, the author of “London Fields” who passed away last year before the film ...

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Searching For Meaning From 'Zone Of Interest' (Journal & Topics Newspapers Online)

Let's face it, writer-director Jonathan Glazer has delivered an immensely thought-provoking, conversation-stimulating film about the most controversial act of ...

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'The Zone of Interest' is a movie about horrors kept just out of sight ... (WBUR)

An adaptation in name and setting only of Martin Amis' 2014 novel, Jonathan Glazer's film follows a few weeks in the life of Rudolf Höss, ...

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Making 'The Zone of Interest': 'The horror was in the house' (Los Angeles Times)

Jonathan Glazer, the filmmaker behind 'Sexy Beast,' 'Birth' and 'Under the Skin,' goes deep into the research, filming and editing of his Holocaust ...

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The Terrifying Details In The Zone Of Interest Came From Actual ... (/FILM)

Höss is also a Nazi commandant in charge of overseeing Auschwitz, a facility that directly neighbors his home. Furnaces, burning up hundreds of human beings, ...

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The Zone Of Interest Is One Of The Most Disturbing Movies You'll ... (/FILM)

It also won or was nominated for multiple awards at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, the National Board of Review, the National Society of Film ...

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The Path to Hell is Lined with Executive Perks in 'The Zone of Interest' (KQED)

The Zone of Interest, selectively and brilliantly adapted by the British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Sexy Beast) from the late Martin Amis' ...

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'The Zone of Interest' thrives on raw power (Huntsville Item)

There are certain expectations when you see a film about the Holocaust. The great historical tragedy has become a subgenre unto itself over the years, ...

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'The Zone of Interest' thrives on raw power (Cleburne Times-Review)

The film follows the daily life of the Hoss family, whose patriarch Rudolf (Christian Friedel) is the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

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Monsters roam in 'The Zone of Interest' (Boston Herald)

Glazer's film tells the fact-based story of Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel) and wife Hedwig Hoss (Sandra Huller). Hoss, who is based on the real World War II ...

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