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From writer/director Jonathan Glazer and starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, and Ralph Herforth. THE ZONE OF INTEREST – Coming Soon.  RELEASE DATE: Coming Soon DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer CAST: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth

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00:00 (BIRDS CHIRPING)

00:02 The Zone of Interest is not a story in the sense of a normal film.

00:07 It's about a man who has a lovely life with his family,

00:10 he's very good at his job, they live in the country,

00:12 in a lovely house with a lovely garden.

00:14 He also happens to be the commoner of Auschwitz.

00:17 (SCREAMING)

00:18 That garden wall was the same wall on the other side

00:21 that was the death camp.

00:23 In our early research, the photographs,

00:25 the Hoss family album is in this garden.

00:28 You see everything, you see the pool and the slide

00:30 and the greenhouse and the rest of it.

00:31 You never see the wall that abuts the camp.

00:33 There have been films about perpetrators

00:38 and a lot of those examples have shown perpetrators quite villainous.

00:42 You know, "Not us."

00:44 So I wanted to avoid the artifice of cinema.

00:46 I wanted to look at them more forensically.

00:50 He said, "We don't want to make this like a movie set."

00:53 There was no lighting, there was no film gear on the set,

00:56 only, like, cameras.

00:58 So they wired the whole house with the cameras.

01:00 Some of them were hidden, some of them were visible,

01:03 but no camera people were behind it.

01:05 We were all in a trailer over the wall, basically.

01:08 How it affects the acting,

01:10 you definitely knew you were all alone with the history,

01:13 with all the things that were present in that house

01:16 that I cannot even explain.

01:18 It was really important, critical, in fact,

01:23 for the entire project to be as close to the truth

01:26 as one could possibly get to create present tense as an experience

01:30 and also allow the audience to be able to project themselves

01:33 onto these people and see themselves.

01:36 Very easy to see these people committing genocide

01:39 and thinking, "They're monsters. That's not me. I'm safe."

01:43 But they didn't start as mass murderers.

01:46 They started as boyfriend and girlfriend,

01:48 having dreams about their future.

01:50 What they wanted for themselves

01:52 is not that dissimilar to what everybody wants.

01:54 And the whole idea of this project was to be confronted

01:57 by a reflection of ourselves on some level.

02:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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