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Name: Son of Saul
Released: 2015-12-18
Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn

Son of Saul

R
1h 47m
2015

96%

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October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working, 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.

Director:

László Nemes

Writer:

László Nemes, Clara Royer

Cast:

Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn

FEATURES

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Commentary with László Nemes, Géza Röhrig and Mátyás Erdély

1 HR 47 MIN

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Return From The River

2 MIN

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Q & A At The Museum Of Tolerance

1 HR 3 MIN

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Behind The Camera: Inside the Filming Process

16 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

96%

Critics Consensus: Grimly intense yet thoroughly rewarding, Son of Saul offers an unforgettable viewing experience -- and establishes director László Nemes as a talent to watch.

Reviews

Vague Visages

Jordan Brooks

Grappling with themes of self-preservation and mental stability amongst abject barbarity, Son of Saul packs an emotional punch all its own, while seeking to convey the essence of an individual living in abhorrent chaos.

A difficult, harrowing, and exhausting film to endure – claustrophobic and psychological. But it’s also an intimate and gripping experience and an extraordinary feature film debut from László Nemes.

August 25, 2022

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NME (New Musical Express)

Olly Richards

If the intention is to give us even a fleeting experience of what it could have been like to live in constant fear, hoping for a breath of humanity in a life shaped by evil, then it has achieved that entirely.

I understand Godard's criticism of Schindler's List now. No holocaust movie should be a thriller. Hungarian first timer Laszlo Nemes's Auschwitz set drama is at once riveting and quietly devastating experience and it doesn't feel like a gimmick.

February 14, 2021

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Battleship Pretension

David Bax

Son of Saul presents a gargantuan moral victory in the face of incomprehensible evil.

January 7, 2021

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