Program Description
Event Details
Multi-award winning film Zones of Interest will be screened. The film is rated PG 13, Parent or Guardian with anyone under 16 is strongly recommended due to the mature nature of the film.
This movie is loosely based on Martin Amis' novel The Zone Of Interest, extracting just one aspect out of it, the so-called normal life of the Höss family, living next to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, which was under Höss' command. Their life is being shown in an almost documentary style, in absolutely realistic reconstruction of the historical setting. Everything about their home is so bluntly normal, average and pseudo idyllic that it would be even boring, if we weren't aware of the concentration camp hell just behind the wall around their garden.
What we don't see we're getting to hear on the background sound. While garden parties are being celebrated and children play at the pool side, we hear the barking of dogs, brutal shouting, the shooting, the permanent sound of industrial murder, as a constant reminder of the atrocities the family doesn't ever seem to notice. We sometimes see the smoking chimneys and the smoke of incoming trains in the distance, transporting more victims to the gas chambers.
After the film we will have a discussion on the film and the banality of evil it presents.