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- Friedel says Höss embodied "darkness" while being "a father, an ordinary, sometimes boring person" Christian Friedel agreed to play Höss despite previously turning down Nazi roles, including Adolf Hitler. "Very often there are clichés of Nazis - brutal evils", he says. He preferred Glazer's approach.
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Mar 8, 2024 · In a wide-ranging conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Friedel discusses playing Höss as a “boring bureaucrat,” why he twice turned down the role of Adolf Hitler, and why, after all those...
Jan 14, 2024 · Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer ’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor chose to visit Auschwitz for the first time.
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Christian Friedel agreed to play Höss despite previously turning down Nazi roles, including Adolf Hitler. "Very often there are clichés of Nazis - brutal evils", he says.
Christian Friedel plays Rudolf Höss in 'The Zone of Interest'. Popular Culture. As its longest-serving commandant, Rudolf Höss was the true mastermind of Auschwitz. Höss was instrumental in expanding Auschwitz from a rudimentary set-up to a sprawling complex.
Jan 27, 2024 · Friedel plays Rudolf Höss, the camp’s longest-serving commandant, as he lives a chillingly ordinary life in the middle-class home that abuts the killing ground. We see no violence.
Dec 4, 2023 · Friedel, who portrays Höss as a stolid and empathetic family man—one nonetheless focused on efficient killing methods at the camp he runs—was here to promote the film, a delicate endeavor given...
Nov 29, 2023 · When Christian Friedel was preparing to play Rudolf Höss, the real-life Nazi commandant at Auschwitz who’s the alarmingly opaque protagonist of “The Zone of Interest,” he discovered an...
