The Zone of Interest review: A hellish, daring spin on more traditional Holocaust movies
by Clarisse Loughrey
Feb 01, 2024
2 minutes
– , including Best Picture – issues a warning from just outside the walls of Auschwitz, spreading its soul-sickness across each frame. It studies the domestic life of Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel), the real-life commandant at the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland where an estimated 1.1 million people – 960,000 of them Jewish – were murdered. He lived at that time, with his family, in a corner
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