A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial. Son of Saul: a harrowing drama set in Auschwitz in. Watch the first international trailer below and let’s hear your thoughts in the comments. With Gza Rhrig, Levente Molnr, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont. Watch a trailer for Son of Saul, a drama that plunges its viewer directly into the heart of a concentration camp. While carrying out his duties, he sees a body that looks like his son. His job at the concentration camp is to burn the bodies of victims. The film stars GÃ©za RÃ¶hrig, Levente MolnÃ¡r and Urs Rechn and does not yet have a release date. Saul Auslander is a prisoner in Auschwitz in October of 1944. 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. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. Saul Auslander is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. Sony Classics snatched the film up for a domestic release and will certainly be pushing hard for that Foreign Language nomination, but some are even thinking it has a shot at Best Picture and, why not? Here’s the synopsis: Loved by many at the Cannes Film Festival and considered a frontrunner for the Palme d’Or, the film didn’t take home the fest’s top prize, but did walk away with the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI awards. As of right now the list of films submitted for consideration for Best Foreign Language feature at this year’s Oscars is made up of only one film, LÃ¡szlÃ³ Nemes‘ Son of Saul out of Hungary.

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