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Overview

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Director:
Tim Blake Nelson
Writers:
Miklos Nyiszli (book)
Tim Blake Nelson (play)
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Release Date:
30 November 2001 (Spain) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
The Story You Haven't Seen
Plot:
A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
THE GREY ZONE is so good it's literally painful to watch. more (95 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

David Arquette ... Hoffman
Velizar Binev ... Moll
David Chandler ... Max Rosenthal

Michael Stuhlbarg ... Cohen
George Zlatarev ... Lowy (as Georgy Zlatarev)
Dimitar Ivanov ... Old Man
Daniel Benzali ... Simon Schlermer

Allan Corduner ... Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Steve Buscemi ... 'Hesch' Abramowics

Harvey Keitel ... SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
Henry Stram ... SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele
Kamelia Grigorova ... Girl
Lisa Benavides ... Anja

Shirly Brener ... Inmate

Mira Sorvino ... Dina
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong holocaust violence, nudity and language.
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Bulgaria more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Although Harvey Keitel plays SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt, Keitel himself is of Jewish-Polish heritage. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: In the first set of end credits listing the stars, Brian F. O'Byrne's last name is spelled "O'Bryne"; it is spelled correctly in the second set, listing the entire cast. more
Quotes:
Hoffman: [outside the gas chamber] You're all fine! The quicker you get undressed, the quicker you'll be clean, settled and reunited with your families.
Morris, Man with Watch: Filthy liar.
Hoffman: Remember the number of the hook you hang your clothes on!
Morris, Man with Watch: He's a liar! I can't believe it's Jews doing this!
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Movie Connections:
References Nuit et brouillard (1955) more
Soundtrack:
Roses from the South, Opus 388 more

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How did the girl survive in the gas chamber?
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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
THE GREY ZONE is so good it's literally painful to watch., 11 April 2003
10/10

This might not sound like a recommendation, but when you consider the film's subject matter, "painful" is actually a good word to describe THE GREY ZONE's brilliance. Director Tim Blake Nelson has crafted a fascinating portrayal of the Sonderkomando, Jewish concentration-camp prisoners who help the Nazis in order to ensure for themselves a few extra months of life, as well as creature comforts denied to the other prisoners. The script and cast are equally effective. David Arquette proves himself to be not merely the idiot bastard son of the Arquette family with a powerful performance; Harvey Kietel and Steve Buscemi are brilliant as always. The film's real strength, making it the greatest Holocaust film I've ever seen, is its relevance; we may think ourselves to noble to sell out our brethren to save our own lives, but we would certainly reconsider if actually faced with this choice. In the end, Nelson brilliantly implies that perhaps the nightmare world of the Sonderkomando is really not so different from our own workaday reality.

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