The Zone of Interest is a portrait of guilt. No wonder it has divided opinion in Germany

‘The Nazi family knows what’s going on next door, they approve of it, they are not even conflicted about it’ … The Zone of Interest.‘The Nazi family knows what’s going on next door, they approve of it, they are not even conflicted about it’ … The Zone of Interest.Most Germans insist their ancestors weren’t Nazis. Jonathan Glazer’s film pries away at the cracks in this narrativehere is something unsettling about sitting in a German theatre laughing at Nazis.

In the play, which has a present-day setting, two siblings find a painting signed by “A. Hitler” in their dead father’s house. Once they realise that the kitschy artwork is worth more than €100,000 if they can credibly authenticate the artist as Hitler, the siblings start recasting their entire family history in a different light.

Leaving aside that provocative wording, it is true that Glazer’s film shows antisemitic violence in just a few scenes, but that does not minimise it – rather, it underlines it even more effectively. The Nazi family knows what’s going on next door; they approve of it; they are not even conflicted about it. Of course, this is a story about a privileged Nazi commandant who oversaw mass murder, and not your average German family living through the second world war.

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