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The Grey Zone

Year:
Duration:
108 min
Genres:
Drama | History | War
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Tim Blake Nelson
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2001-11-30
Filming Locations: Bulgaria
Earnings
Budget: $5,000,000
Opening Weekend: $24,526 (USA) (20 October 2002)
Gross: $507,443 (USA) (15 December 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
David Arquette
Hoffman
Velizar Binev
Moll
David Chandler
Max Rosenthal
Michael Stuhlbarg
Cohen
George Zlatarev
Lowy (as Georgy Zlatarev)
Dimitar Ivanov
Old Man
Daniel Benzali
Simon Schlermer
Allan Corduner
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Steve Buscemi
'Hesch' Abramowics
Harvey Keitel
SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
Henry Stram
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele
Kamelia Grigorova
Girl
Lisa Benavides
Anja
Mira Sorvino
Dina
Natasha Lyonne
Rosa
Dafina Katzarraska
Woman Inmate (as Dafina Katzarrska)
Donka Avramova
Young Woman
Rumena Trifonova
Woman Inmate
Simeon Vladov
Guard
Marianne Stanicheva
Girl's Mother (as Mariana Stanisheva)
Oncho Alexanyan
Rivkin
Georgi Kalchev
SS Officer
Lee Wilkof
Morris, Man with Watch
Jessica Hecht
Man's Wife
Brían F. O'Byrne
Gestapo Interrogator, SS-Untersturmfuhrer (as Brian O'Byrne)
Valentin Ganev
Torturer
Steve Ubels
Hauptman
Vladimir Velev
KS Man
Victor Kalev
Kahn
Hristo Shopov
Halivni
Mark Wing-Davey
Schott
Ioana Christova
Woman Inmate
Harry Anichkin
Kaminski
Dobrin Dosev
SS Officer
Portia Reiners
Young Girl (voice)
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Trivia
It was reported that Natasha Lyonne, who plays Rosa, contracted Hepititis C while shooting the movie in Bulgaria. She later was reported to be in hospital suffering from Hepititis C, a collapsed lung and a heart infection.
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A 90%/scale reproduction of the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camp was constructed near Sofia, Bulgaria, for the shooting of this film. The actual plans for the original Auschwitz camp were used to build the set.
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Though she was a central character, the little girl did not speak during the entire move, though she does narrate the closing lines.
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Goofs
In the first set of end credits listing the stars, Brían F. O'Byrne's last name is spelled "O'Bryne"; it is spelled correctly in the second set, listing the entire cast.
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The sonderkommandos mounted the uprising in a hurry. The krematorium IV Kommando rebelled after they knew they were about to be liquidated. They used only blunt weapons and self made grenades and set the krematorium 4 on fire (only one). The rebellion wasn't planned from the start.
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The movie suggests that two crematoria were destroyed during the rebellion. In reality only crematorium 4 was destroyed.
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Quotes
Title Card: As a part of the final solution the Nazis employed "special units", known as the Sonderkommandos, to aid in the extermination process at Third Reich death camps. These Jewish moles ushered victims into the gas chambers and processed their corpses after gassings. In exchange for their work, they received privileges unheard of by camp standards, before being exterminated themselves after four months. Title Card: Based in part on the eyewitness account of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, the Hungarian Jew assigned by Dr. Josef Mengele to assist in medical experiments on camp inmates, this film addresses true events surrounding the twelfth, largely Hungarian, Sonderkommando at Auschwitz II - Birkenua. 1 of 1 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No | Share this Share this: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  Permalink Hide options Hoffman: Why kill us now? We're the best kommando you've had.
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Hoffman: [outside the gas chamber] You're all fine! The quicker you get undressed, the quicker you'll be clean, settled and reunited with your families.
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SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt: I never fully despised the Jews until I experienced how easily they could be persuaded to do the work here. To do it so well. And to their own people! They'll be dead by week's end, every soul. And we'll replace them with others no different. Do you know how easy that will be?
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Faq
Q
Was this movie filmed at the actual site of Auschwitz?
A
No. A replica camp was built near Sofia, Bulgaria using a map of the original camp. It was built to about 90% scale.
Q
What is the Nazi officer pouring into the vents on top of the gas chamber?
A
The method used by the Nazis to gas their victims in some death camps, definitely in Auschwitz, was done by pouring pellets of Zyklon B into vents built into the ceilings of the gas chambers. The vents were attached to columns that had openings for the fumes to fill the room. Zyklon B was originally produced as a pesticide, however, the Nazis found that it was quite effective at killing large numbers of people very quickly and inexpensively (it didn't cost very much to produce). When the pellets were exposed to air, they produced deadly fumes of Prussic acid which, in short, would suffocate the victims.
Q
How did the girl survive in the gas chamber?
A
The conclusion that Dr. Nyiszli came to was that there was a large amount of moisture left on the floor after the room was last "cleaned" after the last gassing. This moisture formed a thin layer of humidity near the floor. The fumes from Zyklon B were believed to be unable to penetrate this layer of humidity. While crushed against the floor under a few bodies, the girl breathed a much lower concentration of the gas and was able to survive.In the gas chambers, many people, many of them elderly or children, died of suffocation not from the gas but due to being crushed under the fall of bodies on top of them as they died or while being trampled by stronger victims who were clamoring desperately to escape the chamber.
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