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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