7.4
Title: Son of Saul
Original Title: Saul fia
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: Hungary
- Length: 107 Minutes (1 hour 47 min)
- Budget: $1,650,000
- Genre: Drama History
- Studios: Laokoon Filmgroup
- Distributor: Avalon Films
- Age rating: 18 (Suitable only for adults)
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:
Saul Ausländer
Abraham Warszawski
Oberkapo Biederman
Prisionero
Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Ella
Videos
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December 3 2015
Photos
Trivia
The main actor, Géza Röhrig, in addition to interpreting works as a writer and musician in the film.
An old military base on the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, served as the movie's location.
It's the debut of László Nemes.
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