The Grey Zone is a 2001 American historical drama film written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson[3] and starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Daniel Benzali.

These prisoners were made to assist the camp's guards in shepherding their victims to the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies in the ovens.

After the gassing of this group, a badly shaken Hoffman finds a young girl alive beneath a pile of bodies.

He removes her from the chamber and after informing the leader of the insurgency, Schlermer, takes her to a storage room and summons Nyiszli, who revives her.

[6] An 80 percent scale "model" of the Birkenau camp was built near Sofia, Bulgaria for the production of the film using the original architectural plans.

[7] In the same year that he portrayed Eric Muhsfeldt in The Grey Zone, Keitel played the opposite role of a U.S. Army denazification investigator in the film Taking Sides.

[citation needed] The film holds a 69% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 85 reviews, with the consensus "A grim and devastating tale of the Holocaust.