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Winner of 46 awards including: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Academy Awards 2016 Best Motion Picture in the Foreign Language Golden Globes 2016 4 prizes at Cannes including the Special Grand Jury Prize October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslnder is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourners Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial. Critically acclaimed and the winner of countless awards across the world, Son of Saul is a disquieting portrait of the Holocaust through a harrowingly original narrative one single prisoners view; a very personal and human perspective on one of the greatest atrocities in human history. Directorial debut from lszl Nemes, with Son of Saul being described as his career-making tour de force The Telegraph.