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
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 March 1967, Sofia, Bulgaria
4 April 1979, New York City, New York, USA
13 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
30 November 1948, London, England, UK
18 May 1944, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
8 March 1990
20 January 1950, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
4 January 1964, Sofia, Bulgaria
7 April 1956, Ruse, Bulgaria
8 September 1971, Winchester, Virginia, USA
3 February 1950, Danbury, Connecticut, USA
2 April 1950, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
27 July 1944, Bulgaria
24 September 1974, Haifa, Israel
25 June 1951, Canton, Ohio, USA
18 May 1971, Sofia, Bulgaria
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.
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.
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.
April 29, 2009
This is a masterpiece and yet another chapter of the dark period called: "The Holocaust."
November 15, 2002
Even in its darkest moments, a heartening defiance underlies gut-wrenching calamity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
