Steven Bush

This is a tale of how the angel of life was confronted by the angel of death. Set in Auschwitz Birkenau, 1944.

Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, Hans, facing the harsh reality, begins to realize the magnitude of the atrocious acts of which he is being accomplice.

LA郊外のある日。死の床にいるTVプロデューサーと彼の家族、クイズ番組の司会者、警官などが、互いの人生に絡んでは離れていく……。ポール・トーマス・アンダーソン監督がジェレミー・ブラックマン主演で描いた傑作。