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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust film
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film ⓘ |
| academyAwardsEdition | 88th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1.37:1 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Mátyás Erdély NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widespread critical acclaim ⓘ |
| director | László Nemes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Mozinet
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Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Matthieu Taponier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | shallow focus cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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historical drama ⓘ war ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
German
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Hungarian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Saul Ausländer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | Sonderkommando prisoner ⓘ |
| metacriticCategory | universal acclaim ⓘ |
| musicBy | László Melis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | intense first-person perspective depiction of Auschwitz ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Saul fia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Gábor Sipos
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Géza Röhrig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| representedCountryAtOscars | Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | approximately 107 ⓘ |
| setting | Auschwitz concentration camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Géza Röhrig
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Levente Molnár NERFINISHED ⓘ Urs Rechn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
Holocaust
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death and mourning ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| title | Son of Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Clara Royer
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László Nemes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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