Son of Saul

2015
Hungary
107 min
15

Directed by: László Nemes
Written by: László Nemes, Clara Royer
Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Language: Hungarian/Yiddish/German
UK release: 1 April 2015

Auschwitz, 1944: prisoner Saul (Röhrig) is a member of the Sonderkommando, tasked with disposing of corpses after mass executions, who becomes determined to give a proper burial to a body he believes to be that of his son. Sensitive and non-judgemental but also intense and challenging (it won the Grand Prix at Cannes.)

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Son of Saul

9 Oct 2015

LFF 2015: Riveting Holocaust drama that puts its director László Nemes on the map

Hungarian writer-director László Nemes courageously confronts one of modern history's darkest hours with his Cannes Grand Prix-winning debut. It documents the grisly toil of a Sonderkommando work unit at Auschwitz, where death camp prisoners were forced…

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