The Grey Zone

Actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson adapts this grim look at the Holocaust from his own play, based on Miklós Nyiszli's book, -Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. The film centers on the Sonderkommando: Jewish concentration camp prisoners whose job was to herd their fellow Jews into ...more

This wrenching Holocaust film tells the story of the Sonderkommandos, squads of Jews in the death camps who performed the Nazis' dirty work -- presiding over the inmates' extermination, loading the dead into ovens, shoveling the ash of the newly incinerated -- in exchange for a brief reprieve from death. Based on a play of the same name by director Tim Blake Nelson, The Grey Zone is an earnest, if problematic, evocation of the 20th century's darkest moment. Nelson's interrogation of the moral ...more