Fresh
Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
The Grey Zone
The story you've never seen.
2001 · 1h 48m · R
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Tim Blake Nelson
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The Grey Zone
Overview
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Director and cast
- Tim Blake Nelson Director
- David Arquette as Hoffman
- Velizar Binev as Moll
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Cohen
- Daniel Benzali as Simon Schlermer
- Allan Corduner as Nyiszli
- Steve Buscemi as 'Hesch' Abramowics
- Harvey Keitel as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
- Natasha Lyonne as Rosa
- Mira Sorvino as Dina
- Brían F. O'Byrne as Interrogator
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Grey Zone isn't for everyone, but its riveting power constitutes a stunning (as in it leaves you shattered and shaken) achievement.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Rotten
[Nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised, unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Like the Ancient Mariner, Nelson grabs us by the collar and says, You must know about this. You must bear witness. And so you do.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
Jagged, unrelenting, claustrophobically intimate.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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