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Son of Saul = Saul fia

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN, EAS)

Languages

In Hungarian, with optional English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English audio description track.

Performers

Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Sandor Zsoter, Amitai Kedar, Uwe Lauer, Christian Harting, Jerzy Walczak, Marcin Czarnik, Levente Orbán, Attila Fritz.

Publication Information

Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity.

Summary

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, 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, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish, and offer the boy a proper burial.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Special feature: Commentary with László Nemes, Géza Röhrig and Mátyás Erdély.

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