The Zone of Interest was a worthy Oscar winner, managing to be artistically adventurous, engaging, and more than just a little bit disturbing. Combining subtle yet devastating visual imagery with a soundscape hinting at horror, it’s a detailed study of German perpetrators, which has played to sold-out cinemas in Germany. In the anglophone world, the film has been deemed a devastating representation of the ways in which unthinking administrators shut out the consequences of their murderous actions by concentrating on personal gains and “doing their job well”. Yet, for some in Germany, the film, by eschewing the representation of dedicated…

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