The Zone of Interest

Name: The Zone of Interest
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: December 15, 2023
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 92
Cast: Christian Friedel, Freya Kreutzkam, Imogen Kogge, Lilli Falk, Marie Rosa Tietjen

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A24 | Release Date: December 15, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Christian Friedel, Freya Kreutzkam, Imogen Kogge, Lilli Falk, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Maximilian Beck, Ralf Zillmann, Ralph Herforth, Sandra Hüller, Sascha Maaz, Stephanie Petrowitz

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Winner of the Grand Prix (runner-up prize) at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Summary: 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.

Director: Jonathan Glazer

Genre(s): Drama, History, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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i Christina Newland

Nov 12, 2025

Glazer’s uncompromising and chilling vision of evil is unlike any other film about Nazism. Read full review

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Polygon Austen Goslin

Dec 15, 2023

By taking away the spectacle of violence, Glazer’s film shows another side of one of history’s greatest atrocities. The scale of the human catastrophe sets in not because it’s represented, but because the characters don’t seem to notice it at all. Read full review

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Dave Calhoun

May 20, 2023

It’s a stunning film – thoughtful, challenging and disturbing. Read full review

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Ann Hornaday

Jan 16, 2024

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. Read full review

Peter Travers

Dec 8, 2023

Hard to watch, but impossible to forget, this masterwork from director Jonathan Glazer concerns a Nazi family impervious to the genocide happening just over the wall at Auschwitz. It’s a wake-up call issued from the bowels of hell. We ignore it at our peril. Read full review

Ben Croll

May 20, 2023

Neither provocation nor counter-point, The Zone of Interest is instead a furtherance, a new take on an ungraspable madness we must never let ourselves forget. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jan 9, 2024

Maybe Glazer’s movie will be of use to people naïve enough to believe that nobody without horns and a pitchfork can be the devil. Everybody else will learn nothing from this film. Read full review

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