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Son of Saul
HUNGARY · 2015

Son of Saul

László Nemes
Holocaust grief and loss moral dignity paternal love Jewish burial rites
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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.

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I saw Son of Saul when it came out and found it very upsetting. I admired its rigor, but for me, I wanted to find a different path.
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