Completed - Drama - 107 minutes
A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Year of production : 2015
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.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 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 mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Country(ies) : HUNGARY
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Academy Awards, USA 2016 (Best Foreign Language Film )