The German officer’s family who lived next door to the Auschwitz death camp during World War Two is the subject of Britain’s “The Zone of Interest,” which took home the Oscar for best international feature picture on Sunday.
The main focus of the film is on commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family as they establish a life next to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland, the largest concentration camp and extermination center constructed by the Nazis, where over 1.1 million people were killed.
The Zone of Interest wins best international film
For the first time, a British picture—albeit one that is not in the English language—wins best foreign film, making history.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Speaking now, Jonathan Glazer connects the events in Israel and Gaza to his film. “It’s not a movie that shows you what they did in the past and what we do today,” he claims.
The Zone of Interest movie review
The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer is unlike any other movie that has come out recently. Rarely does one find a movie as instantly terrifying as this one. It won’t go from the spirit and thoughts. Although it is a Holocaust film, it refrains from showing the homicidal dictatorship in all its savagery. However, there is also a strong human complicity theme to this movie. about a shared desire to survive in a cruel and incredibly unfair world. It is a movie that defies categorization into just one historical period. Glazer confronts and targets the here and now.
