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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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