Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
SON OF SAUL
Saul fia
Synopsis
October 1944, Auschwitz. Saul is a Jewish prisoner working as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.
Synopsis
October 1944, Auschwitz. Saul is a Jewish prisoner working as a Sonderkommando. When he discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.
Our take
One of the most acclaimed debuts in recent memory, this is visceral, immediate cinema. Told in disorienting over-the-shoulder cinematography, Son of Saul captures the chaos and atrocity of the Holocaust like you’ve never seen before. Prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards®.