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The Grey Zone

2001Movie1 h 48 min

Drama
67
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IMDb7.0Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic587.3Rotten Tomatoes70%74%
67
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.0Letterboxd3.6/5Metacritic587.3Rotten Tomatoes70%74%

Summary

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando - one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

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Historical Ugliness UpdateRare · in 53 titlesJosef Mengele is portrayed as a balding middle-aged man. In real life, he was quite good-looking and he would've been in his early thirties at the time this movie takes place.Euphemism Busterin 63 titlesMuhsfeldt tells the Sonderkommando of Crematorium IV that the guards are planning on "moving" them soon to give them a "reprieve".All 60 tropes

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