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Son of Saul

Drama War Thriller

2015, Movie, 1h 47min

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.

"Son of Saul" — drama, war and thriller movie produced in France and Hungary and released in 2015. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.4 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 47min. "Son of Saul" is currently available to stream on Mubi, Sky Store and Virgin Media Store and for rent and to buy on Amazon Store, Rakuten TV and CHILI. Click on a playlink to watch it now!

Country: France,Hungary

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Reviews

Critic A.A. Dowd

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...also a pretty stunning formal accomplishment, especially coming from a first-time filmmaker.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Christy Lemire

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...a marvel of controlled filmmaking—a bold vision carried out with powerful simplicity, and an impressively assured debut form both Nemes and Röhrig as his star.

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Critic Marc Savlov

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...a film unlike any other Holocaust film you’ve ever seen.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Phil De Semlyen

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It's a film that bores straight into your soul and leaves you shattered, but somehow richer for having seen it.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Mark Kermode

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...glimmer of light in this appalling darkness, infinitesimal yet inextinguishable. Ultimately, it is that glimmer that makes Son of Saul so traumatic.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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By any standards, this would be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable.

Read full review at The Guardian

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In the depths of Auschwitz, a Hungarian Jew named Saul Ausländer finds himself forced to work in the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners tasked with assisting the Nazis in their extermination efforts. Amidst the unspeakable horrors of the camp, Saul discovers a glimmer of hope when he comes across a young boy's body that he takes to be his son. Determined to give the child a proper burial, Saul embarks on an impossible mission to save the body from the flames and find a rabbi to perform the funeral rites. In the face of unimaginable atrocities, Saul clings to this last shred of humanity as his only means of survival.