The Zone of Interest

Hedwig and Rudolf Höss live with their children in a dream house – surrounded by an idyllic garden and a picturesque lake where families bathe and picnic in peace. The occasional screams, gunshots and oven noises are of no consequence to them in their own little paradise. On the contrary, as a Nazi commander, Rudolf Höss appreciates his short commute to work. For directly behind the garden wall of his magnificent house is the Auschwitz concentration camp. Inspired by Martin Amis' novel of the same name, director Jonathan Glazer conveys the banality of evil and the horror of the Holocaust without explicitly showing it. THE ZONE OF INTEREST is an incomparable work of enormous significance, which rightly won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. The film is the British entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film.