This year’s Oscar winner for Best International Film has just arrived on Prime Video. Area of interest It has been available since last Sunday (31st) for subscribers to the platform.
With Sandra Hüller (who also starred in French Anatomy of a fall) and Christian Friedel (13 minutes), the film is “a powerful portrait of a Nazi family living near Auschwitz”.
In the story, Rudolf Höss (Friedel), the commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig (Hüller), live a quiet and peaceful life. This is inside the house. From the outside, Nazi Germany commits crimes against humanity.
Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Glazer himself wrote the screenplay together with Martin Amis (London Fields).
A little more about the story
First of all it is important to underline this Area of interest portrays a true story. Rudolf Höss was appointed commandant of Auschwitz in May 1940, when the camp was still in its infancy.
His appointment coincided with the expansion of the concentration camp, which was used as a site for the mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, political prisoners and other groups persecuted by the Nazis.
Höss was responsible for transforming Auschwitz into one of the largest extermination centers of the Holocaust, overseeing the construction of gas chambers and crematoria to speed up the process of mass extermination.
His ruthless leadership and dedication to carrying out Nazi orders made him a feared and hated figure. To his family, however, he was a good father and husband. The film is precise in showing this duality.
The film does not give space to horror scenes. Small details, however, constantly remind the viewer of what happened in Nazi Germany.
The film also raises the question of whether the connivance of ordinary people also played a major role in the heinous crimes committed during that period.
An award-winning feature film
An almost obligatory film that is now free for Prime Video subscribers.
The post-Oscar-winning film “Zona de Intereste” arrives in streaming and appeared for the first time on Olhar Digital.
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