The Commander’s Shadow is a documentary showing the real locations portrayed in the award-winning Zona de Interesse (2023).
The drama of war Area of interest (2023), winner of the 2024 Oscars for Best International Filmattracted the attention of the public and critics for having fictionalized another side of Nazism; the life of those commanders and their families who lived near the concentration camps and led an ordinary routine despite knowing the horrors of war. This year the documentary The Commander’s Shadow He took a tour through history and showed the real life of these people and the places where they lived.
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Director Daniela Volker’s film explores the past of Auschwitz – the main extermination camp of World War II – and follows Hans-Joergen Höss (son of commandant Rudolf Höss) and his grandson Kai on a journey that culminates in the duo’s encounter with Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, known as “the violinist of Auschwitz”.
Unreleased archive footage
In addition to the encounter, the work shows previously unpublished archive images, excerpts from Rudolf Höss’s autobiography, and real places that served as inspiration for Zone of Interest. One of these is the Höss family home in Auschwitz. The building has remained intact and is currently occupied by a Polish family, but Daniela managed to convince them to let the film crew in.
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“To bring Rudolf Höss’s son back to his real home, to let him go back to his room, where he remembers seeing the chimneys through the window, and that they were actually the crematoria where his father burned more than a million people, is really impactful,” comments Wendy Robbins, executive producer of The Commander’s Shadow.
The director’s film does not spare the viewer the memory of the horrors of the Second World War. But according to her, it ends with a message of hope.
“We ended our film with an important message: Our Holocaust survivor meets Rudolf Höss’s son and says: ‘We need to talk to each other,’” says Volker.
The work is currently available on more than 700 screens in the United States, but its screening rights have been acquired by HBO and the film is expected to arrive on Max soon.
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