Son of Saul
Saul fia · dir. László Nemes
Hungary 2015, 107’
Screenings
24 October, 20:15 · Kino Centrum
1944. 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 corpse 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.
| Director: | László Nemes |
| Screenplay: | László Nemes, Clara Royer |
| Cinematography: | Mátyás Erdély |
| Editing: | Matthieu Taponier |
| Cast: | Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Sándor Zsótér |
| Production: | Gábor Rajna, Gábor Sipos |
| Distribution: | Gutek Film |
| Awards: | MFF w Cannes / Cannes IFF – Grand Prix Festiwalu: Najlepszy film, Nagroda FIPRESCI, Nagroda im. François Chalais / Grand Prix: Best Film, FIPRESCI Award, the François Chalais Prize (2015) |
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