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Son of Saul (2015)
Directed by László Nemes
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Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 107 minutes
Actors
Géza Röhrig | Levente Molnár | Urs Rechn | Todd Charmont | Jerzy Walczak | Balázs Farkas | Gergö Farkas | Sándor Zsótér | Marcin Czarnik | Levente Orbán | Kamil Dobrowolski | Uwe Lauer | Christian Harting | Attila Fritz | Mihály Kormos | Márton Ágh | Amitai Kedar | István Pion | Jakab Juli | Tamás Polgár | Rozi Székely | Ernő Fekete | László Somorjai | Eszter Csépai | Zoltán Cservák | Péter Fancsikai | Csaba Formanek | Björn Freiberg | Tamás Herczeg | András Jeles | Bálint Kenyeres | Anett Kormos | Kálmán Kovács | Péter Kőszegi | Csaba Krisztik | Ákos Orosz | Tom Pilath | László Quitt | Péter Takátsy | Balázs Szitás | Norbert Varga | János Vozár | Krisztián Vranik | Sandor Altmann | János Tibor Boldizsár | Mendy Cahan | Dávid Fodor | Kollátosz Fotisz | Judit Gál | János György | Éva Kelényi | Tamás Kiss | László Laskay | Gábor Molnár | Gábor Molnár Opti | Patrik Nádas | Zoltán Perovics | Gábor Póczik | Béla Sebestyén | Péter Selyebi | Tamás Steinberger | Kristóf Törőcsik | Mitropulosz Vaszilisz | Sándor Viglász | Marcell Wrochna | Felix Bender | Dániel Fuhl | Marcus Hammerstein | Christoph Hanz | Melissa Hermann | Matthias Kräusslein | Karsten Schleifring | Gaetan Stawinoga | George Vince | Alexey Zelensky | Viktória Dányi
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/15/2016 | TV | DVD | Rented | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
The subject matter is grim, heartbreaking and anger-inducing but the film is brilliantly photographed. The camera stays focused almost entirely on the character of Saul as he moves about from one horrific scene to another, the horrors mostly out of focus in the background.
That stylistic choice keeps the viewer from being overwhelmed by the sheer horror of the surroundings while allowing the focus to remain on Saul. It represents the ominousness of the atrocities while also giving visual weight to the numbness to his surroundings that Saul is experiencing.
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