The Grey Zone R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Benzali & David Arquette | |
Performer: | Steve Buscemi, Allan Corduner, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne, David Chandler & David Chandler | |
Directed by | Tim Blake Nelson | |
Screenwriting by | Tim Blake Nelson | |
Composition by | Jeff Danna | |
Produced by | Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler & Tim Blake Nelson | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Lee Fine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
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Toronto Star
Rating: B+ --
Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity.
Houston Chronicle
This is a masterpiece and yet another chapter of the dark period called: "The Holocaust."
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Cinema Crazed
...Nelson has a strong sense of movement and imagery...
USA Today
...THE GREY ZONE is certainly an honorable film...
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
[Nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised, unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: C --
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.
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Product Description:
Writer-director-actor Tim Blake Nelson presents THE GREY ZONE, a relentlessly bleak drama that uses one of history's most incomprehensible calamities to address the ultimate question of human survival. Based in large part on Miklos Nyiszli's book, AUSCHWITZ: A DOCTOR'S EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT, THE GREY ZONE is set in the nightmarish world of Auschwitz in the 1940s. The film tells the brutal tale of the twelfth Sonderkommando unit, Jewish prisoners who were granted a few extra months of life in return for their services in helping with the genocide of their people. While organizing a revolt against the Nazis, a group of Sonderkommandos (played with ferocious intensity by David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, David Chandler, and Steve Buscemi) discover a young girl who has somehow managed to survive the gas chamber. Risking their lives, they team up with a fellow Jew, Doctor Nyiszli (Allan Corduner), to revive the fragile youngster and redeem themselves in the process. Nelson's excruciating drama is all the more unsettling for its unflinching honesty. By placing his characters in a world suffused with death, he creates an unbearable scenario where every decision determines the fate of dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent lives. THE GREY ZONE also features deeply impassioned performances by Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Natasha Lyonne.
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- UPC: 031398823827
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