The film follows the life of Auschwitz concentration camp Commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig. Now as well as being another important historical retelling of one of the most awful events in human history it poses several questions.
We see Höss as a family man in a clean house one minute, happily married with several children. The film also touches on his Nazi professional career as Commandant of the camp that killed thousands of Jews.
Strangely the family home backs onto the perimeter of the camp which can be briefly seen with chimneys spewing out black smoke, barbed wire walls and heard albeit distant train noises, gunshots, and screams.
Hedwig tends to a floral garden and she sees her family home as her pride and joy despite the horrors going on so close by.
The possessions of some Jews are shared amo gst characters without a second thought.
The film tries to set some atmosphere of what is to follow with a darkened screen at the start for about thirty seconds.
The film (not the horrific events of the Holocaust) can be remembered for the production design of the Höss household and the sound effects that give the audience a glimpse of the unseen horrors.
Film loosely based on a best selling novel The Zone Of Interest. It might be better in a book medium than as a film?
We see Höss as a family man in a clean house one minute, happily married with several children. The film also touches on his Nazi professional career as Commandant of the camp that killed thousands of Jews.
Strangely the family home backs onto the perimeter of the camp which can be briefly seen with chimneys spewing out black smoke, barbed wire walls and heard albeit distant train noises, gunshots, and screams.
Hedwig tends to a floral garden and she sees her family home as her pride and joy despite the horrors going on so close by.
The possessions of some Jews are shared amo gst characters without a second thought.
The film tries to set some atmosphere of what is to follow with a darkened screen at the start for about thirty seconds.
The film (not the horrific events of the Holocaust) can be remembered for the production design of the Höss household and the sound effects that give the audience a glimpse of the unseen horrors.
Film loosely based on a best selling novel The Zone Of Interest. It might be better in a book medium than as a film?