An excellent Polish film about Nazi family who live outside the walls of Auschwitz in 1943….This film shows little of the atrocities that occurred. Instead it takes the viewer into the mind of the people who carried on there daily lives, swimming as a family, children laughing as they are bathed by their parents, it points us to a normality that seems like our protection mechanism against the horror of human suffering close by.
What I found fascinating was the end , a preview of present day Auschwitz . The cleaners vacuuming the corridors , cleaning the windows against a background of hundreds of suitcases and personal artefacts of a those extinguished in this genocide. I too walked these corridors.
Is it possible to detach our feelings from such trauma. That what worries me most about this film ..history should act a a warning for our future.