![]() ![]() ![]() The area in question is the roughly 25 square miles immediately surrounding Auschwitz in western Poland. The other key element retained is the setting that gives both book and film their title. The longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Höss was a leading force in perfecting the techniques of mass extermination implemented during the acceleration of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Competition)ĭirector-screenwriter: Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin AmisĪdapting Martin Amis’ 2014 novel by radically pruning and reshaping the entire plot and narrowing its gaze to just one of the three narrators, Glazer transforms the book’s fictionalized protagonist into the real-life SS officer he was inspired by, Rudolf Höss. ![]()
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