The Zone of Interest - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Zone of Interest"
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Timing:
1:45 (105 min)
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![Watch film The Zone of Interest | Official Trailer [VOST]](/amdb/images/posters/z/v/the-zone-of-interest-2023-4cFXf.webp)
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What's left behind the scenes
- Director Jonathan Glazer ordered remotely controlled cameras to be installed in the house and garden so that the actors would not know if they were being filmed at any given moment, and if so – whether it was a close-up or not. This allowed the actors to fully immerse themselves in what was happening.
- Martin Amis, the screenwriter and author of the novel on which the film is based, died on the day of the film's premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
- Sandra Hüller's character tells her friends that her coat is 'From Canada'. This was the name given to a vast warehouse on the territory of the concentration camp where items taken from prisoners were stored.
- Thanks to the numerous cameras used during filming, director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer had over 800 hours of footage by the beginning of the editing process.
- Director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer did not want the audience to see all the atrocities that took place in the concentration camp. He wanted them to hear it. Therefore, sound operator Johnny Burn compiled a 600-page document describing significant events in the history of Auschwitz, including eyewitness accounts and a detailed map of the camp. This map allowed for precise determination of distances between points and the range at which sounds could be heard. Burn spent a year compiling a sound library, which included sounds of production equipment, the crematorium, furnaces, the trampling of shoes, gunshots, the clatter of railcars, barking dogs, and screams. Since many French people were brought to Auschwitz, Burn used screams from protests in Paris in 2022. Sounds of drunken guards were provided by recordings made at a train station in Hamburg.
- Filming began in the summer of 2021 near Auschwitz in Poland. Filmmakers hoped to shoot in the actual home of commandant Rudolf Höss, but the house was in terrible condition due to its location on a UNESCO World Heritage site. A suitable building was found nearby. The filmmakers began planting trees as early as April 2021.
- The Höss family's residence was not authentic, however, the scene in the basement was filmed in a real basement of a house where the Höss family once lived.
- The image of the young Polish woman was based on a certain Alexandra, whom director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer met while gathering material for the film. At the age of 12, she was a member of an underground organization and rode her bicycle to the concentration camp with apples for the prisoners, and her actual bicycle and dress are shown in the film.
- Almost the entire film was shot in natural light, and a thermal imaging camera was used for the night scenes.
- Once Sandra Hüller decided not to play roles of Nazis, convinced that actors, consciously or not, try to give their characters a certain glamour. Therefore, Jonathan Glazer gave her an unglamorous role.
- Jonathan Glazer's screenplay has very little in common with the literary source – the novel of the same name by Martin Amis. Amis's novel tells a fictional love story, told from three different points of view, often in a comedic language.
- The film depicts a Hoffmann kiln, invented and patented in 1858 by German engineer Friedrich Hoffmann.
- The sound of a motorcycle engine is audible in outdoor scenes. Among Rudolf Höss's staff, there was a designated person who started the motorcycle to drown out screams and gunfire.
- Director Jonathan Glazer ordered the installation of remotely controlled cameras in the house and garden so that the actors would not know if they were being filmed at any given moment, and if so, whether it was a close-up or not. This allowed the actors to fully immerse themselves in what was happening.
- The protagonist, played by Sandra Hüller, tells her friends that her coat is “From Canada.” That was the name given to a massive warehouse within the concentration camp grounds where items confiscated from prisoners were stored.
- Jonathan Glazer's screenplay has very little in common with the literary source material – the novel of the same name by Martin Amis. Amis’s novel tells a fictional love story, narrated from three different perspectives and often using a comedic tone.
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