The Zone of Interest Trailer: Award-Winning Holocaust Film Shows Family Living Next to Auschwitz

A terrifying new film shows the idyllic life of a family in the vicinity of one of the greatest evils in history.

On Tuesday, A24 released the first trailer for Zone of interestadaptation by screenwriter and director Jonathan Glazer (Under the skin) from the novel of the same name by the English writer Martin Amis from 2014.

The trailer for the film, starring Germans Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, depicts a World War II-era family living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hedwig (Hüller) can be seen trying on clothes, throwing parties in her yard with her children and spending time with her husband Rudolf. Their lives, however, are anything but ordinary: Rudolf Höss is the military officer in charge of Auschwitz.

“Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in the house and garden next to the camp,” reads the film’s official synopsis.

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A24 ‘The Zone of Interest’.

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Zone of interest had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it won the festival’s Grand Prix award. The film was also England’s entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in September.

The film is one of two major international films starring Hüller (45) competing for this year’s awards. She also acts Anatomy of a Fallwhich won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in May, the main award of the festival.

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‘The Zone of Interest’ poster.

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Zone of interest depicts the private and personal life of real-life Nazi officer Höss, who was appointed commandant of Auschwitz in 1940, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. During the Second World War, Höss was given the task of turning the largest concentration camp of the Nazi regime into an extermination camp, and he lived with his family on the grounds of the camp.

Höss, who escaped Auschwitz as Germany’s defeat in World War II loomed, was eventually captured by British forces and extradited to Poland in 1946, according to the official website of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. He was executed at the site of the Auschwitz camp he once commanded in April 1947, in what became the last public execution in Poland.

A24 ‘The Zone of Interest’.

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Amis, who wrote the book Zone of interest is based on, he wrote the novel as “a riveting account of life in the ‘zone of interest’ or ‘kat zet’ — the Nazi euphemism for Auschwitz,” according to Penguin Random House’s synopsis of the novel.

Zone of interest it’s in theaters on December 15.

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