Overview

• The Zone of Interest, a film by Jonathan Glazer, is a daring, anti-conventional Holocaust film that follows the lives of Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, his wife, and their kids as the horrors of Auschwitz unfold right over their garden wall.
• The film is based loosely on a novel by the late Martin Amis and is the U.K.’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar.
• German actor Christian Friedel portrays Höss, a role he describes as challenging, requiring him to portray the character very inwardly.
• The film was shot with the cameras positioned at a distance, often hidden in bushes and behind furniture, creating a sense of observing the family's ordinary situations.
• The film has been acclaimed at film festivals, provoking intense conversations about its meaning and relevance to today's society.