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The Grey Zone [2002]
from Dnc Entertainment
starring Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, David Chandler
directed by Tim Blake Nelson

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A worthy failure, but a failure nonetheless
  The Grey Zone is another well-intentioned failure to add to the canon of Holocaust cinema. On one level you feel bad for criticizing a sincere effort, but on the other when a film with this subject matter (the revolt of the Jewish and Polish Sonderkomandos who ran the crematoriums in Auschwitz in return for a few more months of life) doesn't actually make you FEEL, there's definitely something wrong with it. A few of the performances (Steve Buscemi, Daniel Benzali, David Arquette) are excellent, but far too... more info

• Just so thought provoking
  I watched this last night and couldnt sleep properly afterwards...This was thought provoking, brutal and shocking all at the same time. But the most incredible scene epitimising the whole "who me?" or "I was only doing my duty" kind of statements of the camp guards after the war ended was where the shot pans (at night) left to right above one of the underground gas chambers with one SS opening the vent and another (with respirators on) opening a canister of Zyklon B and pouring it down the 'vent'. My TV was... more info

• Good Performances
  I really enjoy this genre of films. One part of the story does not make sense, but apart from that all the performances were good, but somehow the storyline was not quiet believable.

• Story about the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz
  Tim Blake Nelson, the director of "The Grey Zone" (USA 2001), states that this is not a movie about the Holocaust. It is about the choices a human being is ready to make in order to stay alive - even if it is just for a little while longer.
  The central figure is Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew who assisted with Josef Mengele's infamous experiments. The events are based on his records and on notes of members of the "Sonderkommandos". They take place in Auschwitz, 1944.
  The SS dropped the... more info

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