The film also won the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2015.

Son of Saul beat out Colombia’s Embrace of the Serpent, France’s Mustang, Jordan’s Theeb, and Denmark’s A War in the foreign language category. The film was funded in part by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. He currently lives in New York, where he has studied at a Hassidic yeshiva. 38-year-old Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes has made a staggering feature debut with Son of Saul, an Auschwitz-set drama thats numbing, provocative and impossible to unsee. The actor who portrays Saul is a Hungarian Jew, Geza Rohrig, who also founded an underground punk band when Hungary was under Communist rule.

Saul finds a body of a young boy whom he believes to be his dead son, and tries to save the corpse from burning in order to give his son a proper Jewish funeral, while the members of the Sonderkommando plan a rebellion. Filmmaker László Nemes has some big shoes to fill: his own. The movie tells the story of Saul Auslander, a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who was a member of the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jews who were forced to clear out corpses from gas chambers and move them to the crematoria. Exclusive: The 'Son of Saul' filmmaker returns to the Oscar arena with another period drama about a world on the verge of war. Lead actor Gza Rhrig said that even before the Oscar ceremony, he. JNS.org– The Hungarian Holocaust film Son of Saul won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday, about a month after winning the Golden Globe in the same category. Lszl Nemes Jeles told he had spoke with Oscar-winning the legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg both before and after Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, telling him that Son of Saul is an important film which had contributed to the collective remembrance of the Holocaust. The official movie poster for ‘Son of Saul.’ The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

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