SAUL FIA

(SON OF SAUL)
László NEMES
  • 2015
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
  • First film
Vulcain Prize for an artist technician, awarded by the C.S.T. 2015 , Grand Prix 2015

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 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.

Directed by : László NEMES
Year of production: 2015
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 minutes

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