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Son of Saul: Directed by László Nemes. With Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont. A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
A look at Saul Auslander, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from Auschwitz in 1944 who were forced to assist the Nazis by cremating the bodies of the dead. Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he believes is his young son.
The film follows a man named Saul Auslander during the Holocaust while he attempts to seek out a Rabbi in one of his nearby concentration camps in an attempt to bury a boy. Just by this description alone it should be easy to tell this film isn't for the faint of heart.
Son of Saul (2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
2015 Winner Best Director. László Nemes. Jury statement: "The award goes to a film that makes us hold our breath and instead become part of the film's own pulse.
In this young boy Saul sees a son, a son he never had, but a Jewish soul mate whom he wants to bury according to Jewish ritual--no postmortem examination, no incineration--a recitation of Kaddish for the dead and burial in the earth with a body intact.
Son of Saul: Directed by László Nemes. With Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont. A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Son of Saul: Directed by László Nemes. With Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont. A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Trivia. Son of Saul. During the preparation, director László Nemes, cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and production designer László Rajk made a pledge to stick to certain rules, or a "dogma", which included: The film cannot look beautiful. The film cannot look appealing. We cannot make a horror film.
