The Grey Zone
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| Directed by | Tim Blake Nelson |
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Avi Lerner Danny Lerner Pamela Koffler Christine Vachon Tim Blake Nelson . |
| Written by | Tim Blake Nelson |
| Based on |
Auschwitz: a Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli and The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson |
| Starring |
David Arquette Steve Buscemi Harvey Keitel Mira Sorvino Allan Corduner Daniel Benzali Natasha Lyonne |
| Music by | Jeff Danna |
| Cinematography | Russell Lee Fine |
| Edited by | Michelle Botticelli Tim Blake Nelson |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $517,872 |
The Grey Zone is a 2001 film directed by Tim Blake Nelson and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli.
The title comes from a chapter in the book The Drowned and the Saved by Holocaust survivor Primo Levi. The film tells the story of the Jewish Sonderkommando XII in the Auschwitz death camp in October 1944. These prisoners were made to assist the camp's guards in shepherding their victims to the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies in the ovens.
The film opens in October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. A small group of Sonderkommandos, prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of other dead prisoners, are plotting an insurrection that, they hope, will destroy at least one of the camp's four crematoria and gas chambers. They are receiving firearms from Polish citizens in the nearby village and gunpowder from the UNIO munitions factory; the female prisoners who work in the UNIO are smuggling the powder to the men’s camp amid the bodies of their dead workers. When the women's activity is eventually discovered by the Germans they are savagely tortured, but they don't reveal the plot.
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