While there have been several movies and WWII documentaries about concentration camps, I don't remember any film taking on the portrayal of prisoners (Sonderkommandos) working in the horrific gaz chambers and near the ovens. As a film-maker, to dare deal with such an apex of abnormality takes some doing. Technically, it was achieved by focusing on details that can be rendered realistically, or blurring large fields of view. Hitler's final solution is still beyond comprehension - life, moral values, anything we hold to as important was utterly meaningless then in the concentration camps. A man trying to find some meaning by performing a ritual that was performed in the 'normal' world - burying a dead. A cinematic experience - for the time of the movie, the viewer feels transported in this surreal, terrible world.
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