Bibliograph

Son of Saul, a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & László Nemes ; producers, Gábor Sipos & Gábor Rajna ; director, László Nemes

Type

Label

Son of Saul, a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & László Nemes ; producers, Gábor Sipos & Gábor Rajna ; director, László Nemes

Language

hun

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity., CHV rating: 14A

Main title

Son of Saul

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

944455111

Responsibility statement

a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & László Nemes ; producers, Gábor Sipos & Gábor Rajna ; director, László Nemes

Runtime

107

Summary

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslñder 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 body 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

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

Classification