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* ADayInTheLife: The film does not really have a plot to speak of. The Hoss family lives at Auschwitz for a while, Rudolf is transferred, he's assigned to return, TheEnd, but no conflict or rising action or climax. Instead it is a character study of what kind of people could live directly next to Auschwitz, and not care.
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* ADayInTheLife: The film does not really have a plot to speak of. The Hoss family lives at Auschwitz for a while, Rudolf is transferred, he's assigned to return, TheEnd, but no conflict or rising action or climax. Instead it is a character study of what kind of people could live directly next to Auschwitz, and not care.
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* BittersweetEnding: Played with. Rudolf has learned nothing and never will. If he ever had any humanity, it has slipped away from him and leaves him unable to function even in Nazi society where all he can think about at a party is the most efficient way to gas the room. The horrible work at Auschwitz continues. But the Nazis will lose the war, Auschwitz will be liberate and Rudolf will be caught and hanged. Auschwitz becomes a memorial to the victims while Rudolf and many like him will be forgotten.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The vines will grow and cover it all"'']]
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* RuleOfSymbolism: In the final moments of the film, Rudolf descends a dark staircase, pausing occasionally to wretch his guts out. As he continues he stops, looks down a long hallway and seems to peer into the future where he sees the modern day Aushwitz being cleaned, the facility he put so much effort into now a monument to the suffering of its victims rather than the "greatness" of its architects. At this, Rudolf stares and...[[IgnoredEpiphany continues down the staircase, disappearing into the darkness]].
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* RuleOfSymbolism: In the final moments of the film, Rudolf descends a dark staircase, pausing occasionally to wretch retch his guts out. As he continues he stops, looks down a long hallway and seems to peer into the future where he sees the modern day Aushwitz being cleaned, the facility he put so much effort into now a monument to the suffering of its victims rather than the "greatness" of its architects. At this, Rudolf stares and...[[IgnoredEpiphany continues down the staircase, disappearing into the darkness]].
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* {{Minimalism}}: The movie is presented in a detached and sparse manner. There are no opening titles, only two minutes of a black screen. The majority of the movie is filmed in static wide-shots. Close-ups are rare, as is any movement of the camera. The editing never does anything fancy like a dissolve, instead relying on hard cuts.The score is absent apart from a few stings and the ending credits. The events taking place in Auschwitz next door are never directly shown, only witnessed second-hand and visibly heard throughout.
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* {{Minimalism}}: The movie is presented in a detached and sparse manner. There are no opening titles, only two minutes of a black screen. The majority of the movie is filmed in static wide-shots. Close-ups are rare, as is any movement of the camera. The editing never does anything fancy like a dissolve, instead relying on hard cuts.The score is absent apart from a few stings and the ending credits. The events taking place in Auschwitz next door are never directly shown, only witnessed second-hand and visibly heard in the background throughout.
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* Minimalism: The movie is presented in a detached and sparse manner. There are no opening titles, only two minutes of a black screen. The majority of the movie is filmed in static wide-shots. Close-ups are rare, as is any movement of the camera. The editing never does anything fancy like a dissolve, instead relying only hard cuts.The score is absent apart from a few stings and the ending credits. The events taking place in Auschwitz next door are never directly shown, only witnessed second-hand and visibly heard throughout.
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* Minimalism: {{Minimalism}}: The movie is presented in a detached and sparse manner. There are no opening titles, only two minutes of a black screen. The majority of the movie is filmed in static wide-shots. Close-ups are rare, as is any movement of the camera. The editing never does anything fancy like a dissolve, instead relying only on hard cuts.The score is absent apart from a few stings and the ending credits. The events taking place in Auschwitz next door are never directly shown, only witnessed second-hand and visibly heard throughout.
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* Minimalism: The movie is presented in a detached and sparse manner. There are no opening titles, only two minutes of a black screen. The majority of the movie is filmed in static wide-shots. Close-ups are rare, as is any movement of the camera. The editing never does anything fancy like a dissolve, instead relying only hard cuts.The score is absent apart from a few stings and the ending credits. The events taking place in Auschwitz next door are never directly shown, only witnessed second-hand and visibly heard throughout.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Rudolf is far from the idealized Aryan beauty, with his rather geeky physique, while Hedwig is a pretty but rather clumsy and nagging. Overall, they would look like a normal petty-bourgeois couple that is awkwardly trying to adjust to a NouveauRiche status... except that Rudolf's job is overseeing a death camp, with Hedwig being full aware of the husband's actions.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Rudolf is far from the idealized Aryan beauty, with his rather geeky physique, while Hedwig is a pretty but rather clumsy and nagging.nagging wife. Overall, they would look like a normal petty-bourgeois couple that is awkwardly trying to adjust to a NouveauRiche status... except that Rudolf's job is overseeing a death camp, with Hedwig being full aware of the husband's actions.
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* DramaticIrony: Rudolf and Hedwig often muse about how much the former's work is important to the Reich and how it should be considered with more regard. Nowadays, Auschwitz is the first (sometimes only) concentration camp that anyone can name on the spot, with its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on 27 January 1945 being remember all over the world as the International Holocaust Rememberance Day.
* ForegoneConclusion: No matter what Rudolf and his family may feel about it, the Third Reich will carry on the extermination until its downfall [[spoiler: and, after the war, Auschwitz will be remembered as the epitome of the Holocaust and its horrors.]]
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* HeelRealization: Hedwig's mother seems completely indifferent to the suffering of the Jewish prisoners at first, but during the night she's unable to ignore the horrors of the camp and leaves her daughter's house in the middle of the night.
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** Hedwig's mother seems completely indifferent to the suffering of the Jewish prisoners at first, but during the night she's unable to ignore the horrors of the camp and leaves her daughter's house in the middle of thenight. night.
** [[spoiler: Rudolf possibly has one in the final scenes, when he's caught by fits of dry heaving followed by a vision of the future, when Auschwitz has become a museum and the Holocaust is remembered in all its infamy. After a brief hesitation, however, he continues like nothing has happened.]]
** Hedwig's mother seems completely indifferent to the suffering of the Jewish prisoners at first, but during the night she's unable to ignore the horrors of the camp and leaves her daughter's house in the middle of the
** [[spoiler: Rudolf possibly has one in the final scenes, when he's caught by fits of dry heaving followed by a vision of the future, when Auschwitz has become a museum and the Holocaust is remembered in all its infamy. After a brief hesitation, however, he continues like nothing has happened.]]
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Rudolf is far from the idealized Aryan beauty, with his rather geeky physique, while Hedwig is a pretty but rather clumsy and nagging. Overall, they would look like a normal petty-bourgeois couple that is awkwardly trying to adjust to a NouveauRiche status... except that Rudolf's job is overseeing a death camp, with Hedwig being full aware of the husband's actions.
