The Grey Zone (2001)

Directors

Tim Blake Nelson

Cast

David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler, Allan Corduner, Daniel Benzali, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne

The story

In October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, a small group of a Sonderkommando—prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of the dead—are plotting an insurrection that they hope will destroy at least one of the camp's four crematoria and gas chambers. They are receiving firearms from Polish citizens in the nearby village and gunpowder from the UNIO munitions factory; the female prisoners who work in the UNIO are smuggling the powder to the men's camp amid the bodies of their dead workers. When the women's activity is discovered by the Germans they are savagely tortured but they don't reveal the plot.

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