Kyna

This is the most powerful film I have seen about this time and place. If you are looking for a history lesson, see all the many other films out there, or read a book, or go there. (All of which I have.) If you want to see the threshold between daily life and the madness that was necessary to be the custodians of the Holocaust, this is the film. No blood, no beatings, none of the actual acts of horror that the Nazis perpetrated were shown in the film. Just a German sense of duty, order and occasional slights as threats to the Polish house servant, or discussions of the crematorium operations as if it were a factory producing widgets. There is only short clips on the "other" side---the inside of the Auschwitz Camp and these are treated with amazing grace. They are trips there at night, by a child. These clips are journeys into irrationality as a dream is--brilliantly treated as is the sound of the film. Oscars for Zone of Interest---especially Directing, Cinematography, and Sound.