The oppressive film "The Zone of Interest" shows the seemingly perfect family life of the mass murderer Rudolf Höß and his wife Hedwig. The film by British director Jonathan Glazer is nominated for five Oscars.
In the background there is constant humming and hissing, these are the operating noises of mass murder. The historian Anna-Raphaela Schmitz discovered "a deeper truth about how the crimes of the National Socialists were possible," writes Ikenja Ikenken.