This movie does the best job I've seen in portraying what it must have been like to see and live in Auschwitz. It is a better movie then "Schindler's List" which is avowed to set the standard for movies about the Holocaust. The story is about a conspiracy among some death camp inmates who have been set aside to create temporary labor in the extermination process. Their conspiracy is to destroy the crematoria which are a crucial link in the factory of death that was these special concentration camps.

It was especially good to see Keitel and Buscemi in this movie where their reputations and experience prevent it from winding up in the art film ghetto.