Son of Saul

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Son of Saul is a 2015 Hungarian drama film set in Auschwitz that follows a Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers as he obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he takes for his son.

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instanceOf Holocaust film
film
academyAwardsEdition 88th Academy Awards
aspectRatio 1.37:1
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
cinematographyBy Mátyás Erdély
countryOfOrigin Hungary
criticalReception widespread critical acclaim
director László Nemes
distributor Mozinet
Sony Pictures Classics
editedBy Matthieu Taponier
filmingTechnique shallow focus cinematography
genre drama
historical drama
war
languageSpoken German
Hungarian
Yiddish
mainCharacter Saul Ausländer
mainCharacterOccupation Sonderkommando prisoner
metacriticCategory universal acclaim
musicBy László Melis
notableFor intense first-person perspective depiction of Auschwitz
originalLanguage Hungarian
originalTitle Saul fia
plotSummary A Jewish Sonderkommando prisoner in Auschwitz obsessively seeks to give a proper burial to a boy he believes is his son.
premieredAt 2015 Cannes Film Festival
producer Gábor Sipos
Géza Röhrig
releaseYear 2015
representedCountryAtOscars Hungary
runningTimeMinutes approximately 107
setting Auschwitz concentration camp
linked to: AuschwitzBirkenau
settingPeriod World War II
starring Géza Röhrig
Levente Molnár
Urs Rechn
theme Holocaust
death and mourning
moral ambiguity
title Son of Saul
writer Clara Royer
László Nemes

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