Two well-deserved Oscar awards, best foreign film and best sound, I had to repeat some scenes several times, as the film incredibly draws itself between the lines, in the silence, in the broken conversations, and especially in the background sound (the screams from the concentration camp ), full of meanings imperceptible to my inattentive eyes, the normality of evil in the naturalness of everyday life, a stupendous adaptation, strong and delicate, simultaneously, wonderful...
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house with a garden next to a concentration camp.
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house with a garden next to a concentration camp.