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Son of Saul
Son of Saul
8.1
/10
3,930 Ratings

SON OF SAUL

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Directed by László Nemes
Hungary, 2015
Drama, War

Synopsis

October 1944, Auschwitz. Saul is a Jewish prisoner working as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.

Synopsis

October 1944, Auschwitz. Saul is a Jewish prisoner working as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.

Our take

One of the most acclaimed debuts in recent memory, this is visceral, immediate cinema. Told in disorienting over-the-shoulder cinematography, Son of Saul captures the chaos and atrocity of the Holocaust like you’ve never seen before. Prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards®.