Son of Saul

2015
7.4
Son of Saul
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Title: Son of Saul

Original Title: Saul fia

Year: 2015

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: April 29 2016
  • United States: December 18 2015

Plot

Film director László Nemes, debuts in a long movie direction with ?Son of Saul?, last FIPRESCI, and Grand Jury Prizes winner at Cannes 2015, which is starring Géza Röhrig (Saul), Levente Molnár (Abraham) and Urs rechn (Oberkapo Biederman).

This film take us to Auschwitz during the tail end of the Second World War, concretely in 1944, in a concentration camp where Saul Auslander, a Hungarian prisoner works in a gas chamber, being forced to burn all the other prisioners bodies. When he saw a little boy inside one of these chambers, he is determined to save his life and find a jewish rabbi who can offer the child a real burial, and so bury him "decently", due to he thinks the boy is his small son.

Awards

  • 2016 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 1
  • 2016 Golden Globes: 1 1
  • 2017 BAFTA Awards: 1 1
  • 2017 Goya Awards: 1 0

Cast

Director:

László Nemes László Nemes

Géza Röhrig

Géza Röhrig

Saul Ausländer

Levente Molnár

Levente Molnár

Abraham Warszawski

Urs Rechn

Urs Rechn

Oberkapo Biederman

Todd Charmont

Todd Charmont

Bearded Prisoner

Sándor Zsótér

Sándor Zsótér

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli

Marcin Czarnik

Marcin Czarnik

Feigenbaum

Videos

'Son of Saul' Trailer 1:37

'Son of Saul' Trailer

December 3 2015

Photos

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Trivia

The official submission of Hungary to the Best Foreign Language Film for the 88th Academy Awards 2016.

Shot entirely with a 40mm lens.

The film does not utilize any music in the form of a soundtrack whatsoever, to give the viewer the feeling of actually being there.

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