‘The Zone of Interest’ Trailer: A24 Unveils Brutal, Gut-Wrenching Holocaust Drama

variety.com:

Sophia Scorziello editor A24 has unveiled the trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.” The German-language Holocaust drama tells a chilling story of real-life German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who raised their children in a farmhouse next door to Auschwitz.

The film premiered this year at Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, the fest’s second most prestigious award.

Based loosely on Martin Amis’ 2014 book of the same name, “The Zone of Interest” stars Christian Friedel as Rudolf and Sandra Hüller as Hedwig, along with Daniel Holzberg, Ralph Herforth and Sascha Maaz.

The film was shot entirely in Poland and Germany by award-winning cinematographer Łukasz Żal. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called the film “chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.” Gleiberman continued in his review, “’The Zone of Interest’ isn’t a portrait of the victims of the Holocaust.