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
film
academyAwardsEdition 88th Academy Awards NERFINISHED
aspectRatio 1.37:1
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED
editedBy Matthieu Taponier NERFINISHED
filmingTechnique shallow focus cinematography
genre drama
historical drama
war
languageSpoken German
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 NERFINISHED
Géza Röhrig NERFINISHED
releaseYear 2015
representedCountryAtOscars Hungary NERFINISHED
runningTimeMinutes approximately 107
setting Auschwitz concentration camp NERFINISHED
settingPeriod World War II NERFINISHED
starring Géza Röhrig NERFINISHED
Levente Molnár NERFINISHED
Urs Rechn NERFINISHED
theme Holocaust NERFINISHED
death and mourning
moral ambiguity
title Son of Saul NERFINISHED
writer Clara Royer NERFINISHED
László Nemes NERFINISHED

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