Hungarian Film Fund, Cinéfondation Residence (Cannes Film Festival), Sarajevo CineLink, Jerusalem Film LabĪd Vitam, Mozinet, Avalon, Cinéart, Curzon Artificial Eye, Cinéart Netherlands B.V. But when he thinks he recognizes his sons body, Saul sets out to save the boy from incineration. Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Christian Harting, Uwe Lauer, Kamil Dobrowolski, Sándor Zsótér, Csaba Krisztik Overview Details Amid the horrors of Auschwitz, prisoner Saul Ausländer has the grim duty of transporting corpses from the camps gas chambers to the crematoria. 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. There’s also the fact that it speaks very naturally to younger audiences, for the first time they really feel and are not only trying to understand in an intellectual way.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.
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The Hungarian film, Nemes told me recently, has struck a chord because “people had no immersive experience of the Holocaust and no sense of what the individual must have gone through and that’s compelling for people and creates a whole experience. This new look features dialogue whereas the first trailer released in November was set to music.
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Saul Auslnder 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. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul becomes obsessed with finding a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer him a proper burial. Now Playing: Son of Saul (US Trailer 2) Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Set over a day and a half, the film closely follows the title character (Géza Rohrig) as he discovers among the dead a barely alive boy he believes is his young son. The story centers on Saul Ausländer, a Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz forced to assist the Nazis by feeding the crematoria the endless stream of bodies from the gas chambers. One of the most lauded and talked about foreign films of the year - as the new trailer from Sony Pictures Classics notes above - it also has a DGA nomination for Nemes in the outstanding debut category. To say the Holocaust drama has been on a roll ever since it debuted in Cannes - where it won the Grand Prize - is an understatement. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. This past Sunday, it was named Best Foreign Language Film at the Critics’ Choice Awards. Winner of the Grand Prix at this years Cannes Film Festival, this sparse yet resonant film resolutely follows one man through the 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. First-time helmer Laszlo Nemes’ Son Of Saul picked up a Foreign Language Oscar nomination last Thursday after it won the Golden Globe the Sunday before.