Jewish Telegraphic Agency

‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ tells the true Holocaust story behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

(JTA) — In “The Zone of Interest,” the Oscar-winning drama about life adjacent to Auschwitz, the children of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi concentration camp’s commandant, are only dimly aware of the horrors ...
Deadline.com

‘The Zone of Interest’ Star Christian Friedel On Going To The Dark Side To Play Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss: “There’s A Darkness In All Of Us”

The phrase “banality of evil” is the perfect description for Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes hit The Zone of Interest. Loosely inspired by the late Martin Amis’s 2014 novel, it centers on the Höss family — ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Real History Behind ‘The Zone of Interest’ and Rudolf Höss

Jonathan Glazer’s new film uses the Auschwitz commandant and his family as a vehicle for examining humans’ capacity for evil The Zone of Interest envisions the everyday lives of Auschwitz commandant ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

(JTA) – “The Zone of Interest” is not like other Holocaust movies. Directed by British Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, the film initially appears to follow an unexceptional German family in the ...