Son of Saul
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| Directed by | László Nemes |
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Géza Röhrig Levente Molnár Urs Rechn Todd Charmont Sándor Zsótér Amitai Kedar Uwe Lauer Christian Harting Jerzy Walczak Marcin Czarnik Levente Orbán Attila Fritz |
| Music by | László Melis |
| Cinematography | Mátyás Erdély |
| Edited by | Matthieu Taponier |
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| Distributed by | Mozinet |
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107 minutes |
| Country | Hungary |
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| Budget | €1.5 million |
| Box office | $6.2 million |
Son of Saul (Hungarian: Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian drama film directed by László Nemes 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. It was also shown 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 one since István Szabó's Hanussen in 1988. It is the second Hungarian film to win the award, the first one 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.
In October 1944, Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish–Hungarian prisoner in the German extermination camp Auschwitz, works as a Sonderkommando member. Amongst other duties, he must salvage valuables from the clothing of the dead, drag their bodies from the gas chambers and scrub the floors immediately afterwards. He performs these daily tasks with a stoic, impassive expression, seemingly having been numbed by the daily horrors. One day, following the gassing, he comes upon the body of a boy whom he recognizes. The boy is somehow still breathing after having been gassed. From a distance, Saul witnesses a Nazi physician methodically suffocating the boy to ensure his death and ordering for an autopsy. Saul impulsively comes forth and insists on carrying the body himself to the Hungarian prison doctor, Miklós (Sándor Zsótér). He is able to convince Miklós to not perform the autopsy as he intends to give the boy a proper Jewish burial, for which he needs a rabbi. He goes to Rabbi Frankel (Jerzy Walczak) who refuses and suggests that Saul perform the burial himself.
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