Son of Saul (2015)

Original title

Saul fia

Directed by

László Nemes

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Hungary

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 1,177 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Hungarian man who is part of a forced labor unit at Auschwitz tries to give a dead boy a proper Jewish burial. The film follows his intense personal mission over a day and a half inside the camp.

tenseimmersiveclaustrophobicunsettlingbleakintimateurgentfocused

What happens

Son of Saul (Hungarian: Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer. It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer (played by Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando. The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, and was later screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. It is the ninth Hungarian film to be nominated for the award, and the first since István Szabó's Hanussen in 1988. It is the second Hungarian film to win the award, the first being Szabó's Mephisto in 1981. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Hungarian film to win the award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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