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The Grey Zone

2001 film directed by Tim Blake Nelson

For other uses, see Grey zone (disambiguation).

The Grey Zone is a 2001 American historical drama film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson[3] and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali.

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It is based on the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli.[4]

The title comes from a chapter in the book The Drowned and the Saved by Holocaust survivorPrimo Levi.[5] The film tells the story of the JewishSonderkommando XII in Auschwitz 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.

Plot

In October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenauextermination camp, a small group of Sonderkommando—prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of other dead prisoners—are plotting an insurrection that they ho 'Grey Zone': Smoke And Mirrors - The Washington Post COSIM