Jonathan Glazer's film takes Martin Amis's novel set beside Auschwitz and strips it down to the domestic life of the camp commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, with the camp heard and never shown.
Book· 2014· Historical
The Zone of Interest
by Martin Amis
The Zone of Interest: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
What The Zone of Interest influenced
Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
History
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- The Holocaust
- World War II
Martin Amis set the novel inside the administration of Auschwitz in 1942 and 1943, drawing on the historical record of the camp and its commandant, and told it from the perpetrators' side.