Son of Saul

Jun 11, 2015

1h 47m

★ 7.1

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.

Genres

War

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Hungarian National Film Fund

Laokoon Filmgroup

Playtime

Mozinet

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Cast

Saul Ausländer

Géza Röhrig

Abraham

Levente Molnár

Eli Biederman

Urs Rechn

Bearded Prisoner

Todd Charmont

Rabbi Frankel

Jerzy Walczak

Saul's Son

Balázs Farkas

Saul's Son

Gergö Farkas

Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Sándor Zsótér

Feigenbaum

Marcin Czarnik

Russian Prisoner

Levente Orbán

Mietek

Kamil Dobrowolski

Oberscharführer Voss

Uwe Lauer

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