HUNGARY · 2015

Son of Saul

holocaust grief and loss moral dignity paternal love jewish burial rites

Synopsis

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.

Year2015

CountryHungary

DirectorLászló Nemes

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