Son of Saul
Director:
László Nemes
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslander 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.
Festivals:
Cannes 2015 (competition), Sarajevo 2015, San Sebastian 2015, London 2015, Salonic 2015
Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film - Academy Awards 2016, Grand Prize of the Jury, FIPRESCI Award - Cannes 2015