At the 96th Academy Awards, Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" was nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Picture. It won the latter at the time of publication, with Glazer himself accepting the award. "The Zone of Interest" is an English picture, but it's set in Poland and Germany. The titular "Zone" is the Auschwitz concentration camp. "The Zone of Interest" follows the Höss family, the real-life Nazis living in a villa outside the camp; the patriarch Rudolf was the camp's commander and bizarrely, real life had the happier ending here: we don't see it in the film, but Höss was hung for his atrocities in 1947.
A common question asked about the Holocaust is how people who were there could have let an industrial-scale pogrom happen. "The Zone of Interest" answers that by showing the Nazis' point of view, and its answer? It happened like all other...
A common question asked about the Holocaust is how people who were there could have let an industrial-scale pogrom happen. "The Zone of Interest" answers that by showing the Nazis' point of view, and its answer? It happened like all other...
- 3/11/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
When looking at filming locations for “The Zone of Interest,” producer James Wilson was hoping that they might be able to use the Rudolf Höss house, which is still standing next to Auschwitz. The fact that it is now a private residence that’s been modernized canceled that idea but he would soon find the perfect place to film. “Where we ended up doing it was almost next to that house, a few hundred meters away on a corner plot that abuts Auschwitz. There was a derelict house that we always used to pass as we were moving around town,” he tells Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the exclusive video interview above).
Seebafta odds update: ‘Poor Things’ vs. ‘The Zone of Interest’ for Best British Film
“The Zone of Interest,” which is currently in theaters, is from Jonathan Glazer and marks his first film in 10 years. The film centers on Höss,...
Seebafta odds update: ‘Poor Things’ vs. ‘The Zone of Interest’ for Best British Film
“The Zone of Interest,” which is currently in theaters, is from Jonathan Glazer and marks his first film in 10 years. The film centers on Höss,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Jim Wilson reeled off the Oscar nominations for The Zone of Interest, which he produced with Polish producing partner Ewa Puszczynska, as they were announced, beginning with best international film, sound, adapted screenplay, director and best picture.
“It’s amazing,” he told Deadline. “I’ve never produced a film that’s been in a conversation to this point. It’s been a real education to co-produce a film that this has happened to,” he added from his base in London on Tuesday.
He said that the 2024 Oscar nominations are a testament to the strong relationships he and Glazer have with Film4, A24, House Productions and Access Entertainment.
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Particularly gratifying, he said, was the nomination for adapted screenplay, which went to the film’s director Jonathan Glazer. “I’m thrilled because so much...
“It’s amazing,” he told Deadline. “I’ve never produced a film that’s been in a conversation to this point. It’s been a real education to co-produce a film that this has happened to,” he added from his base in London on Tuesday.
He said that the 2024 Oscar nominations are a testament to the strong relationships he and Glazer have with Film4, A24, House Productions and Access Entertainment.
Related: Lily Gladstone Addresses First Native American Actress Oscar Nom: “Why Did It Have To Take This Long?”
Particularly gratifying, he said, was the nomination for adapted screenplay, which went to the film’s director Jonathan Glazer. “I’m thrilled because so much...
- 1/23/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
When you live by an elevated train track, near an airport, or across from a highway, then you live with a lot of noise; but even if sound is constantly hitting your ears, your brain tends not to notice it. Our capacity for filtering information is vast, and that filtering is often the mark of great sound design, too. In his work on “Nope,” sound designer Johnnie Burn needed to deliberately erase a lot of the environmental, rustling, incidental sounds that would be present in a California canyon to focus the audience on the slightly-off, uncanny sounds Burn leaves in, the ones that signal the appearance of that film’s antagonist.
But in “The Zone of Interest,” Burn, director Jonathan Glazer, and editor Paul Watts have an entirely different, almost opposite challenge. The film lives in the dissonance between the daily lives of the Höss family and the thing they...
But in “The Zone of Interest,” Burn, director Jonathan Glazer, and editor Paul Watts have an entirely different, almost opposite challenge. The film lives in the dissonance between the daily lives of the Höss family and the thing they...
- 12/20/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
When we meet them, Rudolf and Hedwig are an ordinary couple with ordinary concerns. He wants a promotion at work, and she needs a loving home for their children to grow up in; he dotes on their pets, particularly his prized horse, and she must make sure the garden is ready to bloom come the spring and all the lawn parties that attend it. Both are fixated on making sure their children are happy.
Jonathan Glazer depicts their lives as the most mundane of domestic concerns. Yet it’s the fact the director never points his camera to what lies beyond Hedwig’s garden, and above the high wall which looks down upon their happy home, that will give you a dreadful, stomach-churning pause. We simply hear the muffled sounds of what Rudolf’s built there, and glimpse the foundations for this idyllic German dream in occasional shots of black...
Jonathan Glazer depicts their lives as the most mundane of domestic concerns. Yet it’s the fact the director never points his camera to what lies beyond Hedwig’s garden, and above the high wall which looks down upon their happy home, that will give you a dreadful, stomach-churning pause. We simply hear the muffled sounds of what Rudolf’s built there, and glimpse the foundations for this idyllic German dream in occasional shots of black...
- 12/11/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Plot: Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) is named the commandant of Auschwitz. His wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) builds a dream life for the family in the camp’s bucolic outskirts while unimaginable suffering occurs just moments from their doorstep.
Review: Director Jonathan Glazer doesn’t make many films, but when he does, you can bet it’ll pack a wallop. This is certainly true of The Zone of Interest, which takes inspiration from Martin Amis’ novel of the same name and is a Holocaust movie unlike any other you’ve seen. While Schindler’s List and the more recent Son of Saul did a great job depicting the horror, The Zone of Interest perhaps does an even better job portraying the inhumanity of Nazi Germany. That Glazer does this without ever taking us inside the walls of the concentration camp itself or even showing a single scene of violence is the point.
Review: Director Jonathan Glazer doesn’t make many films, but when he does, you can bet it’ll pack a wallop. This is certainly true of The Zone of Interest, which takes inspiration from Martin Amis’ novel of the same name and is a Holocaust movie unlike any other you’ve seen. While Schindler’s List and the more recent Son of Saul did a great job depicting the horror, The Zone of Interest perhaps does an even better job portraying the inhumanity of Nazi Germany. That Glazer does this without ever taking us inside the walls of the concentration camp itself or even showing a single scene of violence is the point.
- 12/6/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
The Zone of Interest may depict Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) with creeping inference, but director Jonathan Glazer is straighter about his subject than Martin Amis, who wrote the novel upon which this film is based. Whereas Amis fictionalised Höss as ‘Paul Doll’ and placed him in a love triangle that never happened, Glazer depicts the commandant and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) closer to how they really were — banal functionaries.
Rudolf and Hedwig live with their five children in a house on the edge of Auschwitz concentration camp. Frau Höss takes great pride in her home and especially her garden, cultivating vegetables and flowers in pots, beds and trellises. Hedwig seems unbothered by the walls and barracks that tower over her petty domain and she shows little concern for the hum of distress that emanates from the camp, even the screams and gunshots. Rudolf is unmoved, too, coasting...
Rudolf and Hedwig live with their five children in a house on the edge of Auschwitz concentration camp. Frau Höss takes great pride in her home and especially her garden, cultivating vegetables and flowers in pots, beds and trellises. Hedwig seems unbothered by the walls and barracks that tower over her petty domain and she shows little concern for the hum of distress that emanates from the camp, even the screams and gunshots. Rudolf is unmoved, too, coasting...
- 12/6/2023
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Adidas founder Adi Dassler is getting the Hollywood treatment with a new limited series in development from independent film producer Niels Juul and Ad Legacy, the company founded by his grandchildren.
The project — which will be told from the perspective of Dassler’s oldest daughter Inge and produced by Juul’s company No Fat Ego — will focus on Dassler’s life and the iconic sports and fashion brand he created from his small German village. It will also capture the intense family drama and rivalry between Dassler and his brother Rudolf, who created Puma.
Juul described the limited series as a “creative intersection” between “The Crown” and “Succession.”
“I am a big fan of real-life stories, and as much as I liked Enzo Ferrari’s tale, I was immediately drawn to the story of Adi. It’s a great dramatic, intense and brutal tale but also at times hilariously funny...
The project — which will be told from the perspective of Dassler’s oldest daughter Inge and produced by Juul’s company No Fat Ego — will focus on Dassler’s life and the iconic sports and fashion brand he created from his small German village. It will also capture the intense family drama and rivalry between Dassler and his brother Rudolf, who created Puma.
Juul described the limited series as a “creative intersection” between “The Crown” and “Succession.”
“I am a big fan of real-life stories, and as much as I liked Enzo Ferrari’s tale, I was immediately drawn to the story of Adi. It’s a great dramatic, intense and brutal tale but also at times hilariously funny...
- 10/17/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Killers of the Flower Moon & Ferrari executive producer Niels Juul has teamed with Ad Legacy, the company set up by the grandchildren of adidas founder Adi Dassler, to develop a fictional limited series about the life of Dassler and the megabrand he created.
Described by Juul as a cross between The Crown and Succession, the project will be seen through the eyes of Dassler’s oldest daughter Inge. It tells the mesmerizing tale of one family man’s uncompromising passion for sports and his obsession through innovation to give all athletes — no matter their gender, race or nationality — the best possible tools to win. It also tells the story of an intense family drama and split between two brothers that ultimately led to one of the longest running brand rivalries in history – as Dassler’s brother Rudolf created Puma.
Over the coming months, Juul’s production company No Fat Ego...
Described by Juul as a cross between The Crown and Succession, the project will be seen through the eyes of Dassler’s oldest daughter Inge. It tells the mesmerizing tale of one family man’s uncompromising passion for sports and his obsession through innovation to give all athletes — no matter their gender, race or nationality — the best possible tools to win. It also tells the story of an intense family drama and split between two brothers that ultimately led to one of the longest running brand rivalries in history – as Dassler’s brother Rudolf created Puma.
Over the coming months, Juul’s production company No Fat Ego...
- 10/17/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The rise of the Adidas empire is getting the limited series treatment after independent film producer Niels Juul inked a deal with the family of the brand’s founder, Adi Dassler.
Juul’s No Fat Ego Productions and Ad Legacy, the company set up by the Dassler’s grandchildren, have entered into a partnership to produce a fictional limited series based on Dassler’s life and the global brand he created from his small German village. The series will also capture the intense family drama and eventual split between Dassler and his brother Rudolf, who created Puma, launching one of the longest-running brand rivalries in history.
Juul — who was one of the founding partners of Von Dutch Originals before transitioning to the film business — describes the project as being “at the creative intersection of ‘The Crown’ and ‘Succession.'” An early synopsis of the limited series explains that the story...
Juul’s No Fat Ego Productions and Ad Legacy, the company set up by the Dassler’s grandchildren, have entered into a partnership to produce a fictional limited series based on Dassler’s life and the global brand he created from his small German village. The series will also capture the intense family drama and eventual split between Dassler and his brother Rudolf, who created Puma, launching one of the longest-running brand rivalries in history.
Juul — who was one of the founding partners of Von Dutch Originals before transitioning to the film business — describes the project as being “at the creative intersection of ‘The Crown’ and ‘Succession.'” An early synopsis of the limited series explains that the story...
- 10/17/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has unveiled the trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.” The German-language Holocaust drama tells a chilling story of real-life German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who raised their children in a farmhouse next door to Auschwitz. The film premiered this year at Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, the fest’s second most prestigious award.
Based loosely on Martin Amis’ 2014 book of the same name, “The Zone of Interest” stars Christian Friedel as Rudolf and Sandra Hüller as Hedwig, along with Daniel Holzberg, Ralph Herforth and Sascha Maaz. The film was shot entirely in Poland and Germany by award-winning cinematographer Łukasz Żal.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called the film “chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.” Gleiberman continued in his review,...
Based loosely on Martin Amis’ 2014 book of the same name, “The Zone of Interest” stars Christian Friedel as Rudolf and Sandra Hüller as Hedwig, along with Daniel Holzberg, Ralph Herforth and Sascha Maaz. The film was shot entirely in Poland and Germany by award-winning cinematographer Łukasz Żal.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman called the film “chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.” Gleiberman continued in his review,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Sophia Scorziello
- Variety Film + TV
Though the Holocaust had no one architect, Rudolf Höss remains singularly responsible for the speed and efficiency of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz, later emulated at the other Nazi death camps, thanks to his approval of the use of the deadly Zyklon B gas. And for his efforts at the first Auschwitz camp in Oświęcim, Poland, he was rewarded by being made commandant of death camp administration throughout the Nazi-occupied lands. This is the monster on full display in Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s The Zone of Interest.
While the novel’s protagonist is named Paul Doll, Glazer chose to name Christian Friedel’s character Rudolf Höss. This immediately point to Glazer’s interest in bringing in the weight of a well-recorded historical character living in a specific place and time: the Höss household next to Auschwitz I in Oświęcim from 1943 to 1944. Much of the film follows...
While the novel’s protagonist is named Paul Doll, Glazer chose to name Christian Friedel’s character Rudolf Höss. This immediately point to Glazer’s interest in bringing in the weight of a well-recorded historical character living in a specific place and time: the Höss household next to Auschwitz I in Oświęcim from 1943 to 1944. Much of the film follows...
- 9/27/2023
- by Zach Lewis
- Slant Magazine
The idea for “My Mother, the Monster,” which won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Co-Production Market Thursday, came to Hungarian director Olivér Rudolf three years ago after seeing a picture of a woman walking in a dark forest in the middle of the night and wearing a scary monster mask.
“There was a tension between this harsh mask and the vulnerability of the person wearing it, so I wanted to find out who was behind that mask and examine more the mother [underneath it],” he says.
Rudolf’s debut feature comes on the heels of his graduation film “Fonica M-120,” which played in Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2020. It tells the story of Éva, a mother in her forties who, disappointed with her life and tired of her own insignificance, finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask that eventually liberates her.
Besides looking into the age-old subject of motherhood,...
“There was a tension between this harsh mask and the vulnerability of the person wearing it, so I wanted to find out who was behind that mask and examine more the mother [underneath it],” he says.
Rudolf’s debut feature comes on the heels of his graduation film “Fonica M-120,” which played in Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2020. It tells the story of Éva, a mother in her forties who, disappointed with her life and tired of her own insignificance, finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask that eventually liberates her.
Besides looking into the age-old subject of motherhood,...
- 8/18/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
Hungarian project ’My Mother, The Monster’, directed by Olivér Rudolf, one of the big winners.
Hungarian project My Mother, The Monster, directed by Olivér Rudolf, was the big winner at the CineLink awards in Sarajevo on Thursday (Aug 17) evening, carrying off the Eurimages Co-Production Development prize worth €20,000.
The project is being put together as a Hungarian-French co-production and is produced by Genovéva Petrovits and Barnabás Tóth-Just through Kino Alfa and Vrai Vrai Films. It’s about a mother in her 40s whose husband is cheating on her. Disappointed by life and suffering a mid-life crisis, she finds a new identity...
Hungarian project My Mother, The Monster, directed by Olivér Rudolf, was the big winner at the CineLink awards in Sarajevo on Thursday (Aug 17) evening, carrying off the Eurimages Co-Production Development prize worth €20,000.
The project is being put together as a Hungarian-French co-production and is produced by Genovéva Petrovits and Barnabás Tóth-Just through Kino Alfa and Vrai Vrai Films. It’s about a mother in her 40s whose husband is cheating on her. Disappointed by life and suffering a mid-life crisis, she finds a new identity...
- 8/18/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Holocaust portrait “The Zone of Interest” received a six-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival this year — and eventually its Grand Jury Prize.
IndieWire now exclusively shares the A24 film’s release date, set for a limited opening on December 8 in time for awards season. A24 also shares two new images from the film featuring Christian Friedel as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and Sandra Hüller as his wife and accomplice Hewdig Höss. At that same Cannes, Hüller also starred in Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall.”
The film’s official synopsis belies what’s going on under the surface, as Rudolf and Hedwig “strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden” directly adjacent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Höss was the longest-serving chief commander.
This is Glazer’s first feature since 2013’s cult...
IndieWire now exclusively shares the A24 film’s release date, set for a limited opening on December 8 in time for awards season. A24 also shares two new images from the film featuring Christian Friedel as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and Sandra Hüller as his wife and accomplice Hewdig Höss. At that same Cannes, Hüller also starred in Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall.”
The film’s official synopsis belies what’s going on under the surface, as Rudolf and Hedwig “strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden” directly adjacent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Höss was the longest-serving chief commander.
This is Glazer’s first feature since 2013’s cult...
- 8/2/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
With Jonathan Glazer’s previous films “Under the Skin” and “Birth,” the man was playing checkers. Now he’s playing chess with “The Zone of Interest.”
For 105 minutes, the auteur filmmaker who’s helmed just three feature films, including the 2000 crime thriller “Sexy Beast” with Oscar nominee Ben Kingsley, puts the audience through the wringer with his bleak Nazi drama told from the perpetrator’s perspective. The result is the first major Oscar player to emerge from the Cannes Film Festival, and a serious contender for the coveted Palme d’Or.
“Interest” is not for the faint of hearts. It’s a grueling endeavor that doesn’t use imagery to depict the horrors that resulted in the murdering of six million Jews. Instead, the soundscape provided by his frequent collaborator Johnnie Burn, the sound designer who’s snubbed work includes “The Favourite” and “Waves,” lays down his most audacious work yet.
For 105 minutes, the auteur filmmaker who’s helmed just three feature films, including the 2000 crime thriller “Sexy Beast” with Oscar nominee Ben Kingsley, puts the audience through the wringer with his bleak Nazi drama told from the perpetrator’s perspective. The result is the first major Oscar player to emerge from the Cannes Film Festival, and a serious contender for the coveted Palme d’Or.
“Interest” is not for the faint of hearts. It’s a grueling endeavor that doesn’t use imagery to depict the horrors that resulted in the murdering of six million Jews. Instead, the soundscape provided by his frequent collaborator Johnnie Burn, the sound designer who’s snubbed work includes “The Favourite” and “Waves,” lays down his most audacious work yet.
- 5/19/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
At this point it doesn’t seem a stretch to say that Jonathan Glazer is incapable of making a movie that’s anything less than bracingly original. His 2000 feature debut, Sexy Beast, elevated the British gangster thriller. Four years later, his reincarnation mystery, Birth, got a cool response from most critics but has since been steadily re-evaluated as a spellbinding heir to Rosemary’s Baby. Almost a decade later, he returned with the hypnotically austere sci-fi chiller Under the Skin, about an alien succubus preying on Scottish men and discovering empathy during her killing spree.
Glazer’s new German-language film, The Zone of Interest, which comes after another 10-year absence from features, is a devastating Holocaust drama like no other, which demonstrates with startling effectiveness the British formalist’s unerring control of tonal and visual storytelling. The worst thing you could say about the director is that for such a singular talent,...
Glazer’s new German-language film, The Zone of Interest, which comes after another 10-year absence from features, is a devastating Holocaust drama like no other, which demonstrates with startling effectiveness the British formalist’s unerring control of tonal and visual storytelling. The worst thing you could say about the director is that for such a singular talent,...
- 5/19/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hard Feelings is a comedy German movie directed by Granz Henman, starring Axel Stein and Diana Amft
Two best friends try to make it through high school while dealing with embarrassing new urges and their very inconvenient feelings for each other.
Release date
May 24
Where to watch Hard Feelings
Netflix
The Cast
Axel Stein/Rudolf
Diana Amft/Paula’s Mutter
Vivien König/Francoise
La entrada ‘Hard Feelings’ (2023) New Comedy on Netflix on May 24 se publicó primero en Martin Cid Magazine.
Two best friends try to make it through high school while dealing with embarrassing new urges and their very inconvenient feelings for each other.
Release date
May 24
Where to watch Hard Feelings
Netflix
The Cast
Axel Stein/Rudolf
Diana Amft/Paula’s Mutter
Vivien König/Francoise
La entrada ‘Hard Feelings’ (2023) New Comedy on Netflix on May 24 se publicó primero en Martin Cid Magazine.
- 5/18/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
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