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The Grey Zone (2001)

Drama | 108 minutes
3,18 427 votes

Genre: Drama / War

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Tim Blake Nelson

Stars: David Arquette, Steve Buscemi and Harvey Keitel

IMDb score: 7,0 (11.752)

Releasedate: 13 September 2001

The Grey Zone plot

The Story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli who was employed by Dr. Mengele, known as the 'Angel of Death', and of the Jewish prisoners of the 'Sonderkommando', who were forced to work in the Auschwitz crematorium. Their traumatic experiences shifted their moral sense into a kind of gray zone.

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arno74

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This was no fun to watch, horrible, kind of a nightmare with your eyes open. A lifelike pitch black film that you don't want to be real. Just add the "horror" category as a genre.

The text alone at the beginning of the film, which explains what a 'Sonderkommando' is, is already horrifying. From the first second you are drawn into the film, it knows how to convey the barbaric aptly. The camera work participates in this, because the cameraman more than once seems to be part of the group and is simply looked at by the other players. That gives even more the impression that you are part of it and that you have ended up somewhere you don't want to be at all.

And sooner or later the answer comes to you, to a question that is not asked: what would you do in such a situation? Rock solid film that digs deep into the bowels of Auschwitz and of the human spirit.

Too bad to recommend, too good to pass up.

Thick 4*

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B.A.

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@ Loveleyboy The Sonderncommando was also well fed, the workers in Birkenau (with whom the Sondercommando had no contact) not so much, although of course there were exceptions if you could get a good job in 'Canada' eg.

I've read the book and the doctor in question didn't have much contact with the bulk of Birkenau's residents, who looked awful indeed. That's always a bit difficult to portray in movies, of course, but quite successful here. The people who come into the picture here are not the prisoners, the majority, who had to work themselves to death.

Many details that are rather easily brushed aside as incorrect here in the reviews come straight from the book: for example, he repeatedly mentions the flames from the chimneys. He also describes those ladies you are talking about in his book: they all looked bad and none of them had anything attractive. A quite striking observation that I can also remember and that fits well with the women portrayed in the film.

It is also the story of a Hungarian doctor who had a relatively privileged position in the camp and who, as in Saul Fia, had to clean gas chambers or shovel ashes into the river. Some things are obviously wrong, like the orchestra that was playing, other things I'm a bit skeptical about now. That grass may well be right: other camps also had parts that were very friendly to the eye, purely to reassure the future victims. I can't say anything about the sprinklers, because I can't remember. (I would find it strange if such an inaccurate detail had been included in the film.) Together with Saul Fia is actually the most realistic film about Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

And the phrase 'the greats of the holocaust genre' is, let's be honest, pretty bizarre.

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