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Son Of Saul (Saul fia, 2015, Hungary)

Studio: Sony/ Columbia/ TriStar

Rating: M

Running time: 103 minutes

Available Format: DVD

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando.  The group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task.  He plans to save the child’s body, then find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and finally offer the boy a proper burial.