Film

If you hear the plot of The Zone of Interest in isolation, it sounds quite quaint – a young family that has worked to build an idyllic life in the country finds their happiness disrupted when the father has to relocate for work. But when you factor in that the father is Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and that just the other side of the vine-covered rear wall of their back garden is the Auschwitz concentration camp that Höss runs, it becomes one of the bleakest and most haunting movies you’re likely to see in a long time.