October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourners Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial. Critically acclaimed and the winner... of countless awards across the world, Son of Saul is a disquieting portrait of the Holocaust through a harrowingly original narrative one single prisoner's view; a very personal and human perspective on one of the greatest atrocities in human history. Directorial debut from László Nemes, with Son of Saul being described as his career-making tour de force' The Telegraph [show more]
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László Nemes co-writes and directs this award-winning Hungarian drama. Set in 1944, the story follows Auschwitz prisoner Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) who is forced to work with a Sonderkommando unit, burning the bodies of fellow Jews in the camp's crematorium. When Saul finds the body of a young boy he believes to be his son he risks everything to try and save him from being cremated and vows to give him a proper burial. The movie won the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language.
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