The intense drama The Zone of Interest by director Jonathan Glazer managed to take home two awards at this year’s Oscars. best foreign language film and the best sound. Directing legend Steven Spielberg praised the war drama as best Holocaust film since Schindler’s List.
The American-British-Polish co-production with the German actress Sandra Hüller has now been released in home cinemas. In addition to the 4K Mediabook *, the film is also available on Blu-ray * and DVD * at Amazon.
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The Mediabook contains a 36-page booklet and the film on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. As Bonus material you can look forward to featurettes and an interview with Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller.
This is what the intense war drama The Zone of Interest is about
The “little paradise” of the Höß family is located right next to the wall of the Auschwitz concentration camp. SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höß (Friedel) leads a idyllic life with his wife Hedwig (Hüller) and their five children. While the family spends time in the garden and the swimming pool, Shots and screams from the neighboring property to hear. The family, however, is not bothered by this. It has become their everyday life. However, when Rudolf is transferred to Oranienburg, their previous life seems to fall apart.
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The Zone of Interest: The best Holocaust film since Schindler’s List
Numerous films have been devoted to the horrific crime of the Holocaust and the horrors of war. In The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer succeeds in creating a to take a new perspective and thus to portray the mass destruction differently, but no less horribly. On the contrary: When our editor-in-chief Jenny Jecke “105 disturbing, grueling and shocking minutes”
at the film premiere in Cannes, she would have preferred to go straight home:
It is the art of making the film almost entirely on the perpetrators and profiteers the Nazi murder machine and nevertheless refrain from using conventional psychograms.
Although the film does not show anyone dying, the banality of evil is a stomach-ache. The Zone of Interest succeeds in creating a very own audiovisual language to develop.
Also Steven Spielberg is thrilled by The Zone of InterestHe told the Hollywood Reporter that Schindler’s List is the film he is most proud of in his 60-year career.
The Zone of Interest could hold a candle to Schindler’s List. It is “the best Holocaust film I have seen since my own. It is very good at raising awareness, especially for the Banality of evil.”
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