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The Grey Zone
2001
· Movie
· 108 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Every rating
58–74
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 74.
See the most agreed on films →The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Details
- Director
- Tim Blake Nelson
- Writer
- Tim Blake Nelson
- Released
- 13 September 2001
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $621.6K
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