Shortlisted for Best International Feature for the 2024 Academy Awards®

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), along with his wife Hedwig (played by Anatomy of a Fall‘s Sandra Hüller), strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Based on the novel by Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest forces us to take a cold look at the mundanity behind an unforgivable brutality. Running time 106 minutes.

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