SON OF SAUL

SAUL FIA

LAOKOON FILMGROUP - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2015

A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.

Festivals
& Awards

Academy Awards, USA 2016
Best Foreign Language Film
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • HUNGARY
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 107 mn
    • Synopsis
    • October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
      Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.