Son of Saul (2015)

2015 · 107 min · War, Drama, Thriller

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.

Directed by László Nemes. Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont and Jerzy Walczak.

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