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.
Cinematography
Tight Academy ratio keeps you trapped in Saul's peripheral hell.
Sound
Off-screen atrocities you hear but never fully see.
Acting
Röhrig's face becomes a mask of desperate concentration.
Director
László Nemes
Géza Röhrig
Saul Ausländer
Levente Molnár
Abraham
Urs Rechn
Eli Biederman
Todd Charmont
Bearded Prisoner
Jerzy Walczak
Rabbi Frankel
Sándor Zsótér
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
Marcin Czarnik
Feigenbaum
Levente Orbán
Russian Prisoner
Uwe Lauer
Oberscharführer Voss
Christian Harting
Oberscharführer Busch
Attila Fritz
Yankl
Mihály Kormos
Schlojme
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