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HUNGARY · 2015
Son of Saul
Synopsis
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.
Cinematic DNA
I saw Son of Saul when it came out and found it very upsetting. I admired its rigor, but for me, I wanted to find a different path.
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Films with Similar Themes
Holocaust · grief and loss · moral dignity · paternal love · Jewish burial rites
