Son of Saul Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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Plot

Saul Ausländer 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 body 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 mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

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Top Cast

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Crew Behind the Film

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The film's director Laszlo Nemes last directed Sunset. The film's writer Laszlo Nemes last wrote Sunset.

Director

Laszlo Nemes

Screenwriter

Laszlo Nemes

Production Details

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Aug 2015

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