The Grey Zone Page #6

Synopsis: The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence, a group from the unit discovers a 14-year-old girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst for their desperate attempt at personal redemption, the men become obsessed with saving this one child, even if doing so endangers the uprising which could save thousands. To what terrible lengths are we willing to go to save our own lives, and what in turn would we sacrifice to save the lives of others?
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director(s): Tim Blake Nelson
Production: Lions Gate Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
R
Year:
2001
108 min
Website
284 Views


They're going

to be liquidating C-camp.

Who said?

Cuts in administration.

There's not enough food.

In the next two weeks.

We dispose of food.

The order is the order.

The entire section.

Two weeks?

That's what I said.

I'll speak with...

What does he have to do

with who stays and who goes?

What does he have to do...?

Because he gave you a pass?

I can assure you it

won't be allowed.

It will be easy to save them.

If there is an uprising

in this camp there will be a massacre

that will far outweigh

anything done to us.

These men will suffer.

That's a strange remark.

We let them live.

For a time.

Even if I...

they don't.

Someone will speak.

I want to know you'll help me.

If I'm spoken to.

Whatever you hear.

Yes.

Good.

As for your wife and daughter,

we must go to KZ Administration

and get them transferred.

How?

Find out which are

the safe convoys out.

They're sending some west

to the munitions factory.

Have them volunteer.

They will be chosen.

It's safe?

I'm telling you I will make it safe.

That's what I'll do for you.

They must keep it a secret,

though.

- Lf everyone volunteers...

- I know.

They save themselves,

that's all.

Just like you.

You and your gall stone.

Your gall stone of a Jew.

How did you get the powder

from the plant?

How did you get the powder

from the plant?

It doesn't matter how they

got the f***ing powder.

What we need to know

is where it's headed.

I'm asking her that.

You think I don't have ears?

You're asking her where it came

from. It came from the plant.

The plant wants to know.

Of course the plant wants

to know.

They should have wondered

that before it happened.

You'll kill this one, too before

she tells us who has it now.

Where was the powder headed?

Where was the powder headed?

This is what you want?

You're going to kill me anyway.

You won't be so lukcy.

We will do worse to your entire

block, after we're done with you.

Why don't you just gas them?

Revive her.

I got the girl.

You two got a date?

I said take the f***ing body.

Why are you up here?

There's a girl...

I said what are you doing

up here?

There's a young girl on that cart

who survived the gas.

She's still breathing.

She'll be burned alive.

We're taking this one.

What do you mean, taking?

I mean taking the body.

Let me get the hair.

I said we're taking her,

hair and all.

If she leaves with hair,

I need to know why.

She's a twin.

What's the trouble?

I need this body

for the Doctor.

So let him get the hair.

What is it with you people?

We're taking now, with the hair.

If she's a twin,

where's the other one?

The other one was caught

before she got on the lift.

And why was she killed?

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