The Grey Zone
2001 · TMDB 6.6
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Why it matters
Nelson's harrowing account of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, men forced to assist in the machinery of extermination in exchange for a few more months of life. The film's moral pressure is relentless, and its final act achieves a kind of grace that feels earned rather than impos...
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Released
- 2001-09-13
- Studio
- The Goatsingers
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.6
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