László Nemes, the director of acclaimed Holocaust movie Son of Saul, has spoken out in opposition to the speech made by the The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, when he accepted his Oscar final weekend.
Glazer has ignited help but in addition an enormous backlash together with his speech, wherein he stated he and his 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.”
“The Zone of Interest is a crucial film… Its director ought to have stayed silent as a substitute of unveiling he has no understanding of historical past and the forces undoing civilisation, earlier than or after the Holocaust.
“Had he embraced the accountability that comes with a movie like that, he wouldn’t have resorted to speaking factors disseminated by propaganda meant to eradicate, on the finish, all Jewish presence from the Earth.
“It is especially troubling in an age where we are reaching pre-Holocaust levels of anti-Jewish hatred – this time, in a trendy, ‘progressive’ way. Today, the only form of discrimination not only tolerated but also encouraged is antisemitism.”
Read the total assertion by Nemes right here
Son of Saul and The Zone of Interest each premiered at Cannes, eight years aside, the place they every received the the grand prix (the runner-up’s prize) on the pageant, and each are set at Auschwitz in 1944.