The Zone of Interest: Directed by Jonathan Glazer. With Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte. Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden besid
The Zone of Interest: How the Film Changes the Novel's Original Story Jonathan Glazer recently released his haunting new film, The Zone of Interest, but how does it compare to its source material? By Brian Kirchgessner Jan 18, 2024 Exclusive: Christian Friedel Portrays the Vile Rudolf H...
Jonathan Glazer's 'The Zone of Interest' is a hauntingly grim immersive experience, a chilling portrayal of history's most atrocious cruelty.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST is in part a love story, at times a comic one, set in Auschwitz. At his best, Amis is brilliant in his rendering of the lives that met at one of history’s most diabolical junctures, and he seems constantly to ask himself Do I have the right to do this? Ult...
(namely the sound design, which absolutely deserved its Academy Award nomination, by the way) actually makes for a more fulfilling story than the one at the center of this film. Sometimes I couldn't help but feel like the movie's only real trick was the whole "can you believe all of ...
That movie was,for me, the year’s best, a sublime ghost story in which a parent-child weepie and an achingly tender romance are layered into a kind of metaphysicalmille-feuille. As such, I’m grateful that we honored Haigh for his delicate (yet piercingly direct) ...
“Downfall” director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2015 drama “13 Minutes,” the true story of Georg Elser, who failed in his attempt to assassinate Hitler. But what made “The Zone of Interest” writer-director Jonathan Glazer, who adapted Martin Amis’ novel, think Friedel would b...
Other articles where The Zone of Interest is discussed: Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest (2014) revisits the Holocaust themes explored in Time’s Arrow. Told from the perspectives of two Nazis and a Jew, the novel examines the horrors of Auschwitz by ch
The Zone of Interest, the German-language Holocaust drama directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, has won the United Kingdom its first-ever Academy Award for best international feature at the Oscars 2024.In his speech for his Cannes Grand Prix-winner, Glazer...
However, The Zone of Interest isn't just a Holocaust story, to be viewed and understood within the time capsule of 'historical drama'. The phrase 'timely allegory' is often bandied about, but in the case of The Zone of Interest, this couldn't be more true, because we are all, to...