Son of Saul

Son of Saul

2015 · 107 min · HU · R · 7.1 (969 votes)
Dir. László Nemes · Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Balázs Farkas · Music László Melis
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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.

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This film is a relentless, visceral descent into the heart of unimaginable horror, captured with an unflinching, claustrophobic intensity. It's a harrowing, dread-soaked journey of one man's desperate quest for moral survival amidst the dehumanizing machinery of atrocity, leaving an indelible, gut-wrenching impression.

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