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Son of Saul

2015 · Movie · R · 107 min · ★ 7.1

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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.

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Details
Years
2015
Release date
2015-06-11
Language
HU
Rated
R
Runtime
107 min
TMDB rating
7.1/10 (1,169 votes)

Themes

  • prisoner
  • world war ii
  • son
  • auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
  • rabbi
  • 1940s
  • sonderkommando

Awards & recognition

  • Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 2016
  • FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes · 2015
  • Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
  • Chicago Film Critics Association Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • CST Award of the Technical Artist
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  • Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • François Chalais Prize
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • National Board of Review Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • Template:Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award — Best Foreign Language Film
  • Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 2016 · nominated
  • International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2016 · nominated

Cast & crew

Directed by László Nemes