“Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech was a mistake, “Son of Saul” director László Nemes said. Though he praised Glazer’s film as “an important movie,” Nemes told The Guardian in a statement that Glazer “should have stayed silent.”
In Glazer’s speech, he said that he and producer James Wilson “stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza.”
Nemes explained in full, “‘The Zone of Interest’ is an important movie. It is not made in a usual way. It questions the grammar of cinema. Its director should have stayed silent instead of revealing he has no understanding of history and the forces undoing civilization, before or after the Holocaust.”
“Had he embraced the responsibility that...
In Glazer’s speech, he said that he and producer James Wilson “stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza.”
Nemes explained in full, “‘The Zone of Interest’ is an important movie. It is not made in a usual way. It questions the grammar of cinema. Its director should have stayed silent instead of revealing he has no understanding of history and the forces undoing civilization, before or after the Holocaust.”
“Had he embraced the responsibility that...
- 3/16/2024
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
“The Invisible Man” star Oliver Jackson-Cohen and “Grantchester’s” Jeremy Neumark Jones have been tapped to lead upcoming World War II feature “The World Will Tremble.”
Written and directed by Lior Geller, the film tells the true story of a group pf prisoners who broke out of the Third Reich’s first Nazi death camp, Chelmno.
Jackson-Cohen plays Solomon Wiener while Neumark Jones takes on the role of Michael Podchlebnik.
They are joined by Anton Lesser (“Andor”), David Kross (“The Reader”), Michael Fox (“Dunkirk”), Charlie MacGechan (“We Die Young”), Michael Epp (“The Beekeeper”), Danny Scheinmann (“Stan & Ollie”), Tim Bergmann and George Lenz.
Of the more than 320,000 Jews sent Chelmno, only four are known to have survived. Two of them attempted an escape — Wiener and Podchlebnik – to expose the truth and bear witness to the barbarity they witnessed.
Geller spent a decade researching and writing the film and renowned historian Dr.
Written and directed by Lior Geller, the film tells the true story of a group pf prisoners who broke out of the Third Reich’s first Nazi death camp, Chelmno.
Jackson-Cohen plays Solomon Wiener while Neumark Jones takes on the role of Michael Podchlebnik.
They are joined by Anton Lesser (“Andor”), David Kross (“The Reader”), Michael Fox (“Dunkirk”), Charlie MacGechan (“We Die Young”), Michael Epp (“The Beekeeper”), Danny Scheinmann (“Stan & Ollie”), Tim Bergmann and George Lenz.
Of the more than 320,000 Jews sent Chelmno, only four are known to have survived. Two of them attempted an escape — Wiener and Podchlebnik – to expose the truth and bear witness to the barbarity they witnessed.
Geller spent a decade researching and writing the film and renowned historian Dr.
- 12/18/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Lior Geller is set to direct “The World Will Tremble,” a scripted feature about the first Nazi death camp, which will be produced by Lorton Entertainment.
Of the 320,000 Jews sent to Chelmno, the first Nazi extermination camp, only four are known to have survived.
“The World Will Tremble” tells the story of two of them: Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik, who, against all odds, managed to escape. On Jan. 19, 1942, they became the first people in the world to provide eyewitness accounts of the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews at the hands of the Third Reich.
“The film will focus on a moment of bravery, resilience, and hope, proving that one’s will to live and tell others, can overcome insurmountable odds and the most indescribable of human conditions,” reads the films longline.
Geller (“We Die Young”) also wrote the film. He has spent over a decade researching the story...
Of the 320,000 Jews sent to Chelmno, the first Nazi extermination camp, only four are known to have survived.
“The World Will Tremble” tells the story of two of them: Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik, who, against all odds, managed to escape. On Jan. 19, 1942, they became the first people in the world to provide eyewitness accounts of the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews at the hands of the Third Reich.
“The film will focus on a moment of bravery, resilience, and hope, proving that one’s will to live and tell others, can overcome insurmountable odds and the most indescribable of human conditions,” reads the films longline.
Geller (“We Die Young”) also wrote the film. He has spent over a decade researching the story...
- 2/2/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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