The Grey Zone
The story you've never seen.
2001 | 108m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Tim Blake Nelson |
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| Writer: | Tim Blake Nelson, Miklos Nyiszli |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 13, 2001 |
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| Director: | Tim Blake Nelson |
| Writer: | Tim Blake Nelson, Miklos Nyiszli |
| Genres: | War, Drama, History |
| Keywords | holocaust (shoah), auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, nazi, uprising, doctor, historical drama, nsdap (nazi party), war drama |
| Production Companies | Millennium Media, Killer Films, The Goatsingers, Martien Holdings A.V.V. |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $621,592
Budget: $5,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 04, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| David Arquette | Hoffman |
| Velizar Binev | Moll |
| Michael Stuhlbarg | Cohen |
| Daniel Benzali | Simon Schlermer |
| Allan Corduner | Nyiszli |
| Steve Buscemi | 'Hesch' Abramowics |
| Harvey Keitel | SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt |
| Natasha Lyonne | Rosa |
| Mira Sorvino | Dina |
| Brían F. O'Byrne | Interrogator |
| Valentin Ganev | Torturer |
| Velimir Velev | KS Man |
| David Chandler | Rosenthal |
| George Zlatarev | Lowy |
| Henry Stram | Mengele |
| Lisa Benavides | Anja |
| Shirly Brener | Inmate |
| Lee Wilkof | Man with watch |
| Jessica Hecht | Man's wife |
| Hristo Shopov | Halivni |
| Donka Avramova | Young Woman |
| Harry Anichkin | Kaminski |
| Dimitar Ivanov | Old Man |
| Kamelia Grigorova | Girl |
| Dafina Katzarraska | Woman Inmate |
| Rumena Trifonova | Woman Inmate |
| Simeon Vladov | Guard |
| Mariana Stansheva | Girl's Mother |
| Oncho Alexanyan | Rivkin |
| Georgi Kalchev | SS Officer |
| Lee Wilkof | Man With Watch |
| Jessica Hecht | Man's Wife |
| Steve Ubels | Hauptman |
| Victor Kalev | Kahn |
| Mark Wing-Davey | Schott |
| Ioana Christova | Woman Inmate |
| Dobrin Dosev | SS Officer |
| Portia Reiners | Young Girl(voice) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Tim Blake Nelson | Director, Editor, Writer |
| Russell Lee Fine | Director of Photography |
| Stanimir Stamatov | Stunts |
| Michelle Botticelli | Editor |
| Miklos Nyiszli | Novel |
| Yaroslav Yachew | Camera Operator |
| Coya Elliott | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Lora Hirschberg | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Claudia Moser | Key Hair Stylist, Key Makeup Artist |
| Teodor Tzolov | Stunts |
| Trish Hofmann | Line Producer |
| Will Cantler | Casting |
| Bernard Telsey | Casting |
| David Vaccari | Casting |
| Maria Djurkovic | Production Designer |
| Johnny Breedt | Art Direction |
| Tatiana Macdonald | Art Direction |
| Valentina Mladenova | Set Decoration |
| Dimiter Petkov | Set Decoration |
| Marina Draghici | Costume Designer |
| Ivon Ivanova | First Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Sofi Davidova | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Rostica Rado | Hairstylist |
| Aldo Signoretti | Hairstylist |
| Irenka Savova | Hair Assistant |
| Mariana Zaharieva | Hair Assistant |
| Peter Mechkoff | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Milos Milicevic | Second Assistant Director |
| Kamen Velkovsky | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Franklin A. Vallette | First Assistant Director |
| Ventsislav Alexandrov | Set Dresser |
| Petko Angelov | Set Dresser |
| Svetla Bojeva | Set Dresser |
| Ivan Dimitrov | Set Dresser |
| Nedka Iskernova | Set Dresser |
| Kamen Ivanov | Set Dresser |
| Kalin Stefanov | Set Dresser |
| Rosen Stefanov | Set Dresser |
| Phil Benson | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sue Fox | ADR Editor |
| J.R. Grubbs | Sound Effects Editor |
| Petur Hliddal | Sound Mixer |
| Jane McCulley | ADR Editor |
| E. Larry Oatfield | Sound Effects Editor |
| Gary Rizzo | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Rich Allison | ADR Recordist |
| Matthew C. Beville | ADR Mixer |
| Jesse Hammer | ADR Recordist |
| Matt Hedges | ADR Recordist |
| Willie Botha | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Michael Georgiev | Special Effects Technician |
| Vladislav Lazov | Special Effects Technician |
| Stuart Murdoch | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Parvan Parvanov | Stunt Coordinator |
| Raicho Vasilev | Stunts |
| Asen Asenov | Stunts |
| Genadiy Ganchev | Stunts |
| Lyubomir Dimitrov | Assistant Camera |
| Mihail Kotev | Assistant Camera |
| John McAleer | First Assistant Camera |
| Boryana Papazova | Second Assistant Camera |
| Ethan Coen | Thanks |
| Joel Coen | Thanks |
| Terrence Malick | Thanks |
| Frances McDormand | Thanks |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Avi Lerner | Producer |
| Harvey Keitel | Executive Producer |
| Pamela Koffler | Producer |
| Danny Lerner | Producer |
| Tim Blake Nelson | Producer |
| Christine Vachon | Producer |
| Danny Dimbort | Executive Producer |
| Peggy Gormley | Executive Producer |
| Trevor Short | Executive Producer |
| John Wells | Executive Producer |
| Brad Weston | Executive Producer |
| David Varod | Co-Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Actor | David Arquette | Nominated |
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| 2024 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 | 18 | 29 | 11 |
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| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
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