The Grey Zone

2001

Action / Drama / History / War

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74% · 86 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 12020 12K

nazi holocaust (shoah) auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp uprising doctor historical drama

Plot summary

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

Director

Tim Blake Nelson Photo
Tim Blake Nelson

Top cast

Natasha Lyonne Photo
Natasha Lyonne as Rosa
Steve Buscemi Photo
Steve Buscemi as Abramowics
Harvey Keitel Photo
Harvey Keitel as Muhsfeldt
Jessica Hecht Photo
Jessica Hecht as Man's Wife
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
993.58 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2
2 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jeroenberndsen1 6 / 10

A horrifying camp drama which leaves you breathless...

Reviewed by =G= 7 / 10

Numbing horror

"The Gray Zone" transports the audience to the epicenter of evil during WWII's final solution to the Jewish question. The film deals with a group of doomed Jewish Auschwitz POW's who do the death camp's dirty work, herding unsuspecting Jews into the showers, carrying cadavers to the crematorium, harvesting the dead for gold dentalwork, etc. The film takes on a challenging subject with countless moral issues to ponder as it scrutinizes the nuts and bolts of mass extermination. However, it doesn't quite measure up to the potent subject with its theatrical presentation, clipped dialogue, time wasting filler, staginess, poor character depth, confusing language and dialect issues, and a rather contrived monologue at the end. Nonetheless, the films treats the subject with dignity, does not exploit or sensationalize, and recreates enough of the horror to impart a sense of what it must have been like giving it docudramatic value. Worth a look for anyone interested in the holocaust. (B)
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