despite all the realism depict in the grey zone amid the actual day to day operation of a nazi prison camp and there a certain stage quality in the dialog that serve a a reminder that youre watch the screen version of a stage play and not what should seem more like a true life documentary . that the fault of the script take from david mamet play and other eye witness source but the acting be excellent . and yet and it do manage to convey just how those prison camp use other prisoner to operate the gas chamber and to carry out the deed with false promise just be sure to remember where you hook the clothes so you can pick up your belonging when you leave and the backbreaking job of load truck with dead body and deposit them on chute that go directly into a blazing furnace . amid all this and various story be entwine involve the petty quarrel among the men assign to these task so they could prolong their own life for at least four month of assured survival . the story involve a girl who do not die during the twenty minute gassing and be then revive and how the men argue over how to protect her from further harm and be intense and touch in that it show the humanity that be still in their soul . her story and how it end be one of the film most memorable and touching element . this be more of an in depth look at the final solution than any other recent film deal with the extermination of jew have ever be and with the exception of schindlers list and the pianist in which the accent be more on the triumph of the human spirit and a much broad view of the war itself in epic mode . this be a darker and intimate look at the actual operation of the camp a experience by a handful of prisoner the brutality and the torture and and raise the question represent how far would you go to survive . it also show how not all the jew be a passive about their fate a some have claim and often oppose the nazi officer and pay for it with their life . in the hand of a great director and it might have be an even more impressive film than it be and so that i be unable to place it in the same class with the two film mention above . the cast be uniformly good and but harvey keitel be outstanding a an s commander keep strict tab on the camp hard work doctor . in it own way and it just a important . young student of history would be well advise to view this one for a good understanding of how the final solution be suppose to occur and the method use to carry out an enormous project know a the holocaust .