Zone Of Interest (1 Viewer)

[Terp152]

Went to see this last weekend with one of my sons. Only playing in one theater in Louisville, not much interest I guess despite being an Oscar nominated film ( I know, who cares?). We didn't like it very much. An hour and a half of watching Rudolph Hoss as a loving father and the family living an idyllic life in the Auschwitz commandant's compound not that spellbinding. Hoss's wife later remarried after his execution and moved to the USA and lived until age 90. Chris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNtVaAuVYY&ab_channel=A24

 

[jazzeum]

My understanding of the movie, which I haven’t seen yet, is that it’s supposed to show the ordariness of these people, that anyone could be like that, in that situation.

 

[Terp152]

My understanding of the movie, which I haven’t seen yet, is that it’s supposed to show the ordariness of these people, that anyone could be like that, in that situation.

Brad, have you watched Shoah? It's been on tv recently and shown in two five hour parts. The complete archived film is about 350 hrs long. Produced in 1985, survivors, local witnesses and former Nazis were interviewed. The Nazis appear as normal older men as they calmly describe events and their duties in the concentration camps.

 

[Go for Broke]

Brad, have you watched Shoah? It's been on tv recently and shown in two five hour parts. The complete archived film is about 350 hrs long. Produced in 1985, survivors, local witnesses and former Nazis were interviewed. The Nazis appear as normal older men as they calmly describe events and their duties in the concentration camps.

I think I stumbled upon this while channel surfing. Looked interesting, but didn't want to invest 5-hours watching it.

 

[Combat]

This one is definitely a slow burn. Great scene though at end it. Intercutting Hoss getting the assignment to gas the 700K Hungarian Jews with the modern-day perspective of the cleaning of the various exhibits at Auschwitz.

 

[jazzeum]

Brad, have you watched Shoah? It's been on tv recently and shown in two five hour parts. The complete archived film is about 350 hrs long. Produced in 1985, survivors, local witnesses and former Nazis were interviewed. The Nazis appear as normal older men as they calmly describe events and their duties in the concentration camps.

Chris, I’ve watched parts of it but not the whole thing. I find watching these things or reading books about them a little taxing. Having said that I just read the book Cold Crematorium which some consider one of the great personal accounts of the Holocaust. It’s written dispassionately by a survivor.

You might find this review of the movie interesting. It’s written by a German scholar whose Substack page I subscribe too.

https://open.substack.com/pub/katja...life?r=b9oem&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

 

[Terp152]

Chris, I’ve watched parts of it but not the whole thing. I find watching these things or reading books about them a little taxing. Having said that I just read the book Cold Crematorium which some consider one of the great personal accounts of the Holocaust. It’s written dispassionately by a survivor.

You might find this review of the movie interesting. It’s written by a German scholar whose Substack page I subscribe too.

https://open.substack.com/pub/katja...life?r=b9oem&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Interesting that the Hoss home is now a private residence. We lived for 3 yrs a few blocks from the ruins of a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht. A stark reminder of those times.