Son of Soul (2015)
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Country:
Hungary
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Duration:
107 . min
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Genre:
thriller, drama, war
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Director:
Laszlo Nemes
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Producer:
Gabor Rein, Gabor Sipos
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Cast:
Geza Rёrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rehn
About film
In 1944, Saul Ausländer works as a Sonderkommando Jewish–Hungarian prisoner in Auschwitz. His job is to accompany new prisoners, who arrive at the camp non-stop, on their short journey. Then he destroys all traces of their presence and waits for the new group to arrive. Among thousands of people going through a gas chamber, one survives bor bare minutes. Saul recognizes that boy as his son and decides to give him a proper Jewish burial, no matter what. Now it is his only purpose in the molten fire of the death camp, so different from real life.
Son of Saul won the Grand Prix of the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated at the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film. It presented one of the most promising directors of today – László Nemes – to the world.
Rewards and nominations
- Academy Awards 2016 — Best Foreign Language Film
- Golden Globes 2016 — Best Foreign Language Film — Hungary
- Cesar 2016 (France) — nomination: Best Foreign Language Film
- 68th Cannes Film Festival — Grand Prix of the Jury, FIPRESCI Prize (competition program), Francois Chalet Award, Prix Vulcain Prize; nominated Palme d'Or, Golden Camera (award for his directorial debut) (Laszlo Nemes)
Director
43-year-old Hungarian director. Son of the director András Jeles. As a teenager, he tried his hand at amateur horror films. Since 2001 Nemes started working as an assistant director in Hungary. In 2006 Nemes moved to New York to study film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts, but soon returned to Hungary and worked as director Béla Tarr's assistant. In 2008 he became a member of the European Film Academy. In 2005 his film Son of Saul set in Auschwitz won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival and went to win the Oscar and the Golden Globe. In 2018, Nemes’s film Sunset won the FIPRESCI Critics Award at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Speaker:
Géza Röhrig
Along with
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Speaker:
Géza Röhrig
Trailer
Director
43-year-old Hungarian director. Son of the director András Jeles. As a teenager, he tried his hand at amateur horror films. Since 2001 Nemes started working as an assistant director in Hungary. In 2006 Nemes moved to New York to study film directing at the Tisch School of the Arts, but soon returned to Hungary and worked as director Béla Tarr's assistant. In 2008 he became a member of the European Film Academy. In 2005 his film Son of Saul set in Auschwitz won four awards at the Cannes Film Festival and went to win the Oscar and the Golden Globe. In 2018, Nemes’s film Sunset won the FIPRESCI Critics Award at the Venice International Film Festival.
