SON OF SAUL
by László Nemes
synopsis
Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it. While the Sonderkommando is to be liquidated at any moment, Saul turns away of the living and their plans of rebellion to save the remains of a son he never took care of when he was still alive.
international title: | Son of Saul |
original title: | Saul Fia |
country: | Hungary |
sales agent: | Playtime |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | László Nemes |
release date: | FR 4/11/2015, BE 4/11/2015, ES 15/01/2016, IT 21/01/2016 |
screenplay: | László Nemes, Clara Royer |
cast: | Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Christian Harting, Uwe Lauer, Kamil Dobrowolski, Sándor Zsótér, Csaba Krisztik |
cinematography by: | Mátyás Erdély |
film editing: | Matthieu Taponier |
art director: | László Rajk |
producer: | Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna |
production: | Laokoon Film |
backing: | Hungarian Film Fund, Cinéfondation Residence (Cannes Film Festival), Sarajevo CineLink, Jerusalem Film Lab |
distributor: | Ad Vitam, Mozinet, Avalon, Cinéart, Curzon Artificial Eye, Cinéart Netherlands B.V. |