2023, 105 minutes
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Won Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Based on the true story, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Motion Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Sound.
"On the most surface level, “The Zone of Interest,” which Glazer adapted from Martin Amis’s novel, is about denial and Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil. But the mental contortions Rudolf and Hedwig go through to justify their own monstrosity go beyond obliviousness into something far more insidious and timeless.... The scenario that Glazer creates and the performances of his lead players — Hüller is especially skillful here, affecting an ungainly gait and martinet-like manner to play the overbearing Hedwig — serve as a portal, challenging viewers to morph from spectators to participants, grappling with the enduring truth that we’re all capable of knowing evil when we see it, even when it suits our interests to look away." - Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post