From writer/director Jonathan Glazer and starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, and Ralph Herforth. THE ZONE OF INTEREST – Coming Soon.
RELEASE DATE: Coming Soon
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer
CAST: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth
RELEASE DATE: Coming Soon
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer
CAST: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth
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Short filmTranscript
00:00 (BIRDS CHIRPING)
00:02 The Zone of Interest is not a story in the sense of a normal film.
00:07 It's about a man who has a lovely life with his family,
00:10 he's very good at his job, they live in the country,
00:12 in a lovely house with a lovely garden.
00:14 He also happens to be the commoner of Auschwitz.
00:17 (SCREAMING)
00:18 That garden wall was the same wall on the other side
00:21 that was the death camp.
00:23 In our early research, the photographs,
00:25 the Hoss family album is in this garden.
00:28 You see everything, you see the pool and the slide
00:30 and the greenhouse and the rest of it.
00:31 You never see the wall that abuts the camp.
00:33 There have been films about perpetrators
00:38 and a lot of those examples have shown perpetrators quite villainous.
00:42 You know, "Not us."
00:44 So I wanted to avoid the artifice of cinema.
00:46 I wanted to look at them more forensically.
00:50 He said, "We don't want to make this like a movie set."
00:53 There was no lighting, there was no film gear on the set,
00:56 only, like, cameras.
00:58 So they wired the whole house with the cameras.
01:00 Some of them were hidden, some of them were visible,
01:03 but no camera people were behind it.
01:05 We were all in a trailer over the wall, basically.
01:08 How it affects the acting,
01:10 you definitely knew you were all alone with the history,
01:13 with all the things that were present in that house
01:16 that I cannot even explain.
01:18 It was really important, critical, in fact,
01:23 for the entire project to be as close to the truth
01:26 as one could possibly get to create present tense as an experience
01:30 and also allow the audience to be able to project themselves
01:33 onto these people and see themselves.
01:36 Very easy to see these people committing genocide
01:39 and thinking, "They're monsters. That's not me. I'm safe."
01:43 But they didn't start as mass murderers.
01:46 They started as boyfriend and girlfriend,
01:48 having dreams about their future.
01:50 What they wanted for themselves
01:52 is not that dissimilar to what everybody wants.
01:54 And the whole idea of this project was to be confronted
01:57 by a reflection of ourselves on some level.
02:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]