The Zone of Interest is a modern masterpiece, albeit a harrowing one. Now, just months after the movie premiered in theaters worldwide and won multiple Oscars and critical praise, a new documentary that can serve as a companion piece is set to get a special release in movie theaters, The Commandant's Shadow, on May 29 and 30.
The story of The Zone of Interest was based on the true story of the Höss family, whose patriarch Rudlof Höss was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the architects of the genocide of Jewish people during World War Two. The key component of the movie is that Höss and his family lived a seemingly idyllic life just on the other side of the camp's walls, where the horrors of the Holocaust were occuring.
