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Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
2015 · Directed by László Nemes · 107 min · War · Drama · Thriller · 16 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: László Nemes, Clara Royer
- Cinematography: Mátyás Erdély
- Edited by: Matthieu Taponier
- Music: László Melis
- Production design: László Rajk
- Produced by: Gábor Rajna, Gábor Sipos
Cast
- Géza Röhrig as Saul Ausländer
- Levente Molnár as Abraham
- Urs Rechn as Eli Biederman
- Todd Charmont as Bearded Prisoner
- Jerzy Walczak as Rabbi Frankel
- Balázs Farkas as Saul's Son
- Gergö Farkas as Saul's Son
- Sándor Zsótér as Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
- Marcin Czarnik as Feigenbaum
- Levente Orbán as Russian Prisoner
Production
- Country: Hungary
- Language: German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Yiddish
- Studios: Laokoon Filmgroup
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Box office: $1,777,043
- Themes: prisoner, world war ii, son, auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, rabbi, 1940s, sonderkommando
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