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.

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

Reviews

Reno

> Experiencing what Saul's seeing, hearing and undertaking. The World War II is the largest source supplier for the war movies. I have seen numerous breathtaking braverism, as well as heartbreakingly suffering film characters which are based on the real and sometimes fiction. The genre too differ...

CinemaSerf

It's maybe appropriate that I watched this on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp. It follow the story of the Hungarian Jew "Saul" (Géza Rögrig) who is essentially a sort of prefect for the Nazis. His job is to usher the prisoners to their final shower, meal and t...

r96sk

<em>'Son of Saul'<em> is as upsetting and unimaginable as you would anticipate a film about the Holocaust would be. It is quite unique in terms of its story and how it's portrayed. It's interesting to learn about the Sonderkommandos, a term I somehow wasn't overly familiar with to be honest. Géza...

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