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Son of Saul

Laszlo Nemes · 2015 CE · Film · Hungarian · Contemporary

A Hungarian prisoner in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, kept alive to move bodies and clean the rooms they came from, believes he recognises his son among them and sets out to find a rabbi and bury the boy properly. The camera stays on his face and shoulders; everything else is out of focus behind him, and mostly sound. His first feature.

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