chief among them, rudolf hertz, the nazi commandant of the camp who lived with his family, a seeminglyuse adjacent to a concentration camp where more than a million people were being murdered. among the films�* five 0scar nominations is won for its british sound designers. their craftsmanship really haunted me. when you hear the noises of hertz�*s children playing joyfully in the garden just back here, combined with the suffering coming out of these buildings, people in pain, gunfire, the juxtaposition of these sounds, it's truly horrifying. but the director of the auschwitz—birkenau state museum, the zone of interest is a tool that can further understanding and help the horrors of the nazi era from being repeated. the role of this film, i think, is to to ask ourselves about what we are doing today, now, in order to to make our world more safe and more better. more than anything else, the zone of interest is a triumph of cinema. there's an unblinking coldness to its observations that makes you acknowledge, rather frighteningly, that the perpetrators of the violence here in auschwitz we