New Oscar-winning WW2 film from German perspective premieres on TV tonight | Films | Entertainment

There have been some incredible Oscar-winning World War 2 films in recent years, including Sir Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Oppenheimer.

Yet one is now being considered one of the greatest films of the 2020s and the 21st century. Alfonso Cuarón called it “probably the most important film in this century”.

Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg confessed it was the best movie about the Holocaust since his own, Schindler’s List.

The film in question is The Zone of Interest, a drama about the family life of German Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who lived in a house with their children on the doorstep of the death camp.

Filmed at Auschwitz in a replica house very close by, the film never shows the horrors inside the walls, but you hear them all the time as the Nazi family next door go about their idyllic lives.

A powerful and profound commentary on the banality of evil and the horrors humanity is capable of, the film was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and went on to win Best Film Not in the English Language.

The Zone of Interest premieres on Channel 4 at 9:45pm tonight and will be streaming on Channel 4 for a limited time afterwards.