The Zone of Interest Confronts the Act of Looking Away
Jonathan Glazer deliberately avoids the most familiar horrors of the Holocaust to show a further layer of inhumanity.
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Jonathan Glazer deliberately avoids the most familiar horrors of the Holocaust to show a further layer of inhumanity.
"The Zone of Interest,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, never shows the inside of the camp’s operations.
How Rudolf Hoss, his family, and music by a future JTA correspondent factor into the film.
The SS guards abandoned the guard posts surrounding Auschwitz during the night of 20-21 January 1945. At its height, in the summer of 1944, the Auschwitz complex, which comprised three basic camps — the main camp, Birkenau and Monowitz — and...
The SS guards abandoned the guard posts surrounding Auschwitz during the night of 20-21 January 1945.