The Grey Zone (2001)

Directed by

Tim Blake Nelson

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 178 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In October 1944 at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoners who are forced to work as Sonderkommando decide to stage an uprising. The film focuses on their daily work of handling the dead and their struggle to maintain their humanity.

bleakheavyharrowingsomberclaustrophobicintensemorally complexunflinching

What happens

The Grey Zone is a 2001 American historical tragedy film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Miklós Nyiszli. The title comes from a chapter in the book The Drowned and the Saved by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. The film tells the story of the Jewish Sonderkommando XII in Auschwitz in October 1944. These prisoners were made to assist the camp's guards in shepherding their victims to the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies in the ovens. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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