Son of Saul
A tour de force of suspense, a swift symphony of collisions, coincidences and reversals that is almost unbearably exciting.
Son of Saul
October 1944, 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.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.
As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Official Selection
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
2015 New York Film Festival
Hungary’s Official Selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.
As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Official Selection
2015 Toronto International Film Festival
2015 New York Film Festival
Hungary’s Official Selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Genre
Drama,
Thriller
Runtime
107
Language
Hungarian,
Yiddish,
German,
Polish
Director
László Nemes
Cast
Géza Röhrig,
Urs Rechn
Awards:
Winner, Grand Prize Critics Week ~ Fipresci Award, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, François Chalais Award, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Best First Feature, New York Film Critics Circle
Winner, Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globes
Nominee, Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director, Directors Guild of America
Winner, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Son of Saul" is an immersive experience of the most disturbing kind, an unwavering vision of a particular kind of hell. No matter how many Holocaust films you've seen, you've not seen one like this. A confident, audacious first feature by Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes and winner of the Grand Jury ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 11.12.15 - 11.12.15
Town Center 5 1.15.16 - 3.10.16
Playhouse 7 1.15.16 - 3.06.16
Royal 2.12.16 - 3.10.16
NoHo 7 2.26.16 - 3.10.16
Claremont 5 2.26.16 - 3.10.16
Lumiere Music Hall 2.26.16 - 3.10.16
Monica Film Center 3.04.16 - 3.10.16
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