The Grey Zone
starring: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg, George Zlatarev
directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
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Based on real life events this film chronicles a unit of auschwitzs sonderkommando a special squad of jewish prisoners who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at auschwitz.Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent.Release Date: 02/01/2005Starring: Steve Buscemi Mira SorvinoRun time: 108 minutesRating: RDirector: Tim Blake Nelson
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The title of Tim Blake Nelson's harrowing drama of Jewish death camp prisoners who rise up against their captors to "destroy the machinery" refers as much to the compromise and cloudy morality of collaboration as to the gray world coated in the smoke and ash of the crematoriums. Inspired by real-life events at the Auschwitz death camp, The Grey Zone stars David Arquette as a soul-deadened laborer whose being fiercely jolts to life when he finds a young girl alive among the gassed corpses. He's the heart and soul of an outstanding cast that includes Steve Buscemi and Daniel Benzali as revolt leaders, Allan Corduner as the shunned camp doctor, and Harvey Keitel as the commandant. Nelson's rapid pacing, intimate shooting, and terse, jagged dialogue give the moral debate a discomforting immediacy as it races a deadline. When doom hangs in the air, sure death creates unique priorities. --Sean Axmaker
Based on real life events this film chronicles a unit of auschwitzs sonderkommando a special squad of jewish prisoners who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at auschwitz.Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent.Release Date: 02/01/2005Starring: Steve Buscemi Mira SorvinoRun time: 108 minutesRating: RDirector: Tim Blake Nelson
Amazon.com:
The title of Tim Blake Nelson's harrowing drama of Jewish death camp prisoners who rise up against their captors to "destroy the machinery" refers as much to the compromise and cloudy morality of collaboration as to the gray world coated in the smoke and ash of the crematoriums. Inspired by real-life events at the Auschwitz death camp, The Grey Zone stars David Arquette as a soul-deadened laborer whose being fiercely jolts to life when he finds a young girl alive among the gassed corpses. He's the heart and soul of an outstanding cast that includes Steve Buscemi and Daniel Benzali as revolt leaders, Allan Corduner as the shunned camp doctor, and Harvey Keitel as the commandant. Nelson's rapid pacing, intimate shooting, and terse, jagged dialogue give the moral debate a discomforting immediacy as it races a deadline. When doom hangs in the air, sure death creates unique priorities. --Sean Axmaker
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- I AGREE with Michael Perry and here is some bibliography
As one who regularly teaches Holocaust literature and film, I was finally disturbed at the anachronisms of the language and attitudes of these men of the Sonderkommandos (who did not, by the way, as one reviewer claimed, 'elect' to join; many did not even know what they were selected for -- and those who refused were immediately killed)
but more to the point, Michael Perry is right on target with his comment:
Those who made this film seem captive their own culture and place in history, ... Read More
Rating: 
- 4 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
A movie that works on nearly every level, The Grey Zone succeeds as a Holocaust story, as a moral question with no easy answers, and as a showcase for actors who are much better here than ever before; it's not a cheery movie, but it is a very good one.
Rating: - Too Real
The previous comments say it all. This left me shaken, for the portrayal of the camp and its horrors is so normal in its explicit context, that the bodies, the ovens, the killings, the Germans, are here not so much more than birds singing and leaves falling. I would suggest anyone before watching this masterpiece to first watch "Conspiracy" to understand what led to this hell on earth.
Rating: - A seriously flawed film
I wish I could praise this film, I really do. The historical events that lie behind it deserve more talent than those who made it seem to possess. Major flaws weaken what might have been a great film.
First, probably in an effort to `improve' the story, they muddle the history. There was a teenaged girl who did miraculously survive the gas chambers at Auschwitz, but that was at a different time and her fate was not that portrayed in the film. Bringing her into a revolt by the inmates who ... Read More
Rating: - The Grey Zone
I had been seeking this movie for quite some time. I had been told by several outlets that the movie was no longer available.I looked it up on Amazon.com and was able to find the product.It was purchased and received in a very timely manner.The movie was what I had expected and I could not be more satisfied.
- I AGREE with Michael Perry and here is some bibliographyAs one who regularly teaches Holocaust literature and film, I was finally disturbed at the anachronisms of the language and attitudes of these men of the Sonderkommandos (who did not, by the way, as one reviewer claimed, 'elect' to join; many did not even know what they were selected for -- and those who refused were immediately killed)
but more to the point, Michael Perry is right on target with his comment:
Those who made this film seem captive their own culture and place in history, ... Read More
- 4 stars out of 4The Bottom Line:
A movie that works on nearly every level, The Grey Zone succeeds as a Holocaust story, as a moral question with no easy answers, and as a showcase for actors who are much better here than ever before; it's not a cheery movie, but it is a very good one.
- Too RealThe previous comments say it all. This left me shaken, for the portrayal of the camp and its horrors is so normal in its explicit context, that the bodies, the ovens, the killings, the Germans, are here not so much more than birds singing and leaves falling. I would suggest anyone before watching this masterpiece to first watch "Conspiracy" to understand what led to this hell on earth.
- A seriously flawed filmI wish I could praise this film, I really do. The historical events that lie behind it deserve more talent than those who made it seem to possess. Major flaws weaken what might have been a great film.
First, probably in an effort to `improve' the story, they muddle the history. There was a teenaged girl who did miraculously survive the gas chambers at Auschwitz, but that was at a different time and her fate was not that portrayed in the film. Bringing her into a revolt by the inmates who ... Read More
- The Grey ZoneI had been seeking this movie for quite some time. I had been told by several outlets that the movie was no longer available.I looked it up on Amazon.com and was able to find the product.It was purchased and received in a very timely manner.The movie was what I had expected and I could not be more satisfied.
