Son of Saul

Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it. While the Sonderkommando is to be liquidated at any moment, Saul turns away of the living and their plans of rebellion to save the remains of a son he never took care of when he was still alive.

Keywords

  • BAFTA Film Awards
  • Best first feature
  • Best sequence-shots
  • Cannes: En compétition
  • Cinéart: 50 Years of Great Cinema
  • David di Donatello
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Film Fest Gent (home)
  • Golden Globes
  • Jessica Woodworth’s favorite films
  • Premios Goya
  • Red Carpet
  • Reflections on the banality of evil
  • The Oscars
  • The Sooner team's favorites: Emilie
  • war

Actors

  • Levente Molnar
  • Todd Charmont
  • Sándor Zsótér
  • Éva Kelényi
  • Urs Rechn
  • Géza Rôhrig
  • Marcin Czarnik

Director

  • László Nemes

Drama


1h 47min


-16

HU


NL

FR

Hungary
2015
Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it. While the Sonderkommando is to be liquidated at any moment, Saul turns away of the living and their plans of rebellion to save the remains of a son he never took care of when he was still alive.

Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it. While the Sonderkommando is to be liquidated at any moment, Saul turns away of the living and their plans of rebellion to save the remains of a son he never took care of when he was still alive.


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