can anyone give me a good overview/summary/synopsis of the movie THE GREY ZONE?

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it is a movie starring David Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi and a bunch of other actors

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What sets "The Grey Zone" apart and makes it so controversial is its focus on Jews selected to assist in the extermination process. They lead the doomed into the gas chambers, persuade them to strip for "a shower," pull gold from the mouths of the dead and deliver corpses to the ovens. For these labors, the Sonderkommandos, as they were called, were fed, reasonably treated, given more months of life- until they, too, were killed.

This is harrowing cinema. I've never seen a film in which the horror of the death camps has been so graphically and matter-of-factly presented. There's no soundtrack to dramatize or sentimentalize. The camera is cold, clinically invasive, brutal.

"The Grey Zone," with its tale of a desperate, ill-conceived plot to rebel, offers a critical subplot involving a girl, 13, who miraculously survives the gas chamber. This child, nearly comatose from her experience, becomes a symbol of life to doomed men whose basest instincts are to live just one more day.

There is great acting from Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Daniel Benzali, Allan Corduner, Mira Sorvino, Natasha Lyonne. I tip my hat particularly to David Arquette, best known as a goofball in a series of dumb and dumber comedies and as a recurring character in the "Scream" slasher movies. Here, in a story of true terror, he is pressed to convey deeper, darker feelings and acquits himself beautifully. Good for director Nelson for taking a chance on Arquette. By the time "The Grey Zone" fades to black, people will be stunned into remembering how much evil existed before Sept. 11. I was chilled anew with the realization this mass, organized attempt to exterminate an entire race happened 60- odd years ago in what we thought was a supremely civilized part of Europe.

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The Grey Zone Summary

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Plot summary for
The Grey Zone (2001)
advertisement The true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together, the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence, a group from the unit discovers a 14-year-old girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst for their desperate attempt at personal redemption, the men become obsessed with saving this one child, even if doing so endangers the uprising which could save thousands. To what terrible lengths are we willing to go to save our own lives, and what in turn would we sacrifice to save the lives of others? Written by Sujit R. Varma

During the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, as part of the genocidal "Final Solution", several death camps are established in occupied Poland to recieve, process, and extreminate the Jews of Europe. To help run this massive machinery of death, the German S.S. establishes the Jewish Sonderkommandos: special groups of prisoners who will help run the gas chambers in exchange for special privileges, unheard of by Concentration Camp standards. "The Grey Zone" thus explores the life of 12th Auschwitz Sonderkommando, up to and including a major uprising in which the Sonderkommando destroyed two gas chambers after learning that they were to be killed and replaced by a new group of prisoners.