The Grey Zone
Based on actual events, the film tells gripping true story of a group of Jewish prisoners who conspire to destroy the crematoriums at Auschwitz, all the while appearing to be Nazi collaborators.
16 May 1967, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
25 June 1951, Canton, Ohio, USA
28 September 1967, New York City, New York, USA
27 July 1944, Bulgaria
May 13, 2003
Roman Polanski's The Pianist may have been showered with Oscar glory ... but the best Holocaust film of 2002 was actually The Grey Zone.
October 25, 2002
Jagged, unrelenting, claustrophobically intimate.
November 15, 2002
Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity.
January 02, 2009
So many incredibly raw, wrenching--and, crucially, unsparingly unsentimental--scenes and moments that it's impossible to not be haunted by the film.
November 07, 2002
[Nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised, unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes.
June 21, 2007
It unsuccessfully tries to bridge the gap between pathos and establishing a sense of realism, coming across as forced. Overweight prisoners and Harvey Keitel's German accent distract from the mood of the film.
October 25, 2002
Although the movie takes us further into the actual process of industrial death at Auschwitz than any American movie has yet dared, The Grey Zone never stoops to sensation or melodrama.
July 25, 2003
Filme trágico, complexo, difícil - e que pode ser assistido em sessão dupla com O Pianista.
November 07, 2002
Like the Ancient Mariner, Nelson grabs us by the collar and says, You must know about this. You must bear witness. And so you do.
June 19, 2003
They are dark, thoroughly uncompromising works of a filmmaker completely fearless to take an audience into dank recesses of the human condition.
April 29, 2009
This is a masterpiece and yet another chapter of the dark period called: "The Holocaust."
November 08, 2002
The Grey Zone isn't for everyone, but its riveting power constitutes a stunning (as in it leaves you shattered and shaken) achievement.
