The Zone of Interest: How the Oscar-nominated Auschwitz film borrows from Big Brother
The Zone of Interest: How the Oscar-nominated Auschwitz film borrows from Big Brother
Image source, A24By Helen BushbyReporter culture
Director Jonathan Glazer says he borrowed techniques from reality TV, with a team hidden and fixed cameras, for his film about Auschwitz concentration camp.
But his Oscar-nominated film, The Zone of Interest, does not show the horrors of massacres.
Instead, it focuses on the family living next door - camp commander Rudolph Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children.< /p>
Höss He ran Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945 and used the toxic insecticide Zyklon B to gas prisoners.
An estimated 1.1 million people were murdered there, including a million Jews.
Meanwhile, just meters away, his family enjoyed their spacious home, plentiful food and well-tended garden - separated from the camp by a concrete wall.
Glazer, who made the film near the Auschwitz site, chose to allude to the terrible events inside the camp.
Director Jonathan Glazer says he borrowed techniques from reality TV, with a team hidden and fixed cameras, for his film about Auschwitz concentration camp.
But his Oscar-nominated film, The Zone of Interest, does not show the horrors of massacres.
Instead, it focuses on the family living next door - camp commander Rudolph Höss, his wife Hedwig and their five children.< /p>
Höss He ran Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945 and used the toxic insecticide Zyklon B to gas prisoners.
An estimated 1.1 million people were murdered there, including a million Jews.
Meanwhile, just meters away, his family enjoyed their spacious home, plentiful food and well-tended garden - separated from the camp by a concrete wall.
Glazer, who made the film near the Auschwitz site, chose to allude to the terrible events inside the camp.
Image source, A24
