Son of Saul

A FILM BY László Nemes

A terrifyingly accomplished first feature for 38-year-old Hungarian writer-director Laszlo Nemes

- Justin Chang, Variety

By any standards, this would be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable.

- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Son of Saul” does something remarkable: It finds an original way to look at the Holocaust cinematically, bringing a startling energy and a fresh look to a subject already explored countless times onscreen.

- Steve Pond, The Wrap

Un véritable choc, en racontant la Shoah d'une façon aussi puissante qu'inédite.

- Marc-André Lussier, La Presse

Mérite de devenir une référence, voir un classique.

- Paris Match

Synopsis

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer 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. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. 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.