The Grey Zone (2001)
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
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In searching for the point at which survival turns into complicity, it may have the most in common with Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone.
In this respect Tim Blake Nelson's " The Grey Zone " (2001) is tougher and more honest, by showing Jews trapped within a Nazi system that removed the possibility of moral choice.
Polanski photographs death in the Warsaw ghetto with a remarkable distance that immediately separates the film from showier Holocaust films like Schindler’s List and The Grey Zone.