In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. This is a reality movie with no happy ending that shakes you. The film opens with two sequences: one with our main character, Saul. This idea is on full display in the debut film of Lszl Nemes, Son of Saul, a Hungarian film that is up for the Best Foreign Language award at this year’s Oscars. There is utter confusion, you do not know what awaits you in the next second. We talk a lot about the camera being an eye for the audience into the world of the film. You are in the camp, you are Saul Auslander.

French, Israeli and German investors did not give money for the movie for fear of a loss.Īs the director mentioned, a movie of this length is spliced together form 300 to 700 cuts these days. The shooting took place from less than $2 million, in a very short period (28 days). The movie was followed by a discussion and Q&A session with the artists.ĭirector Nemes aimed to create a movie that is deprived of the post-war artifacts present in most Holocaust movies.įor this goal, he and his staff made substantial historical research to make the smallest details truthful. Son Of Saul Torrent I do not understand how the previous commentators were able to add their opinion, since I saw the very first screening of the movie outside Cannes in the Művész arts cinema of Budapest tonight, on May 29, 2015.

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. StorylineTwo 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. Writers: László Nemes, Clara Royer Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rech

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