The house of camp commander Rudolf Höß and his wife Hedwig is directly adjacent to the Auschwitz concentration camp: a well-tended perennial garden, family visits, day trips to the nearby river. The director, camera and actors keep the greatest possible distance from the people who act here and organize their everyday lives. It is this kind of staging that makes The Zone of Interest such an important and special film this season. "A cinematic milestone, a new step in the confrontation with the crimes of the Nazis, which must never end. It does not push the events into the safe distance of a historical space. It brings to mind that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman were at work. "radioeins
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