The camera stays inches from Saul’s face; the horrors in the background are blurry and out of focus.
Géza Röhrig (a poet and non-professional actor). Son of Saul
The story follows Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. As a member of the , he is forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of extermination. The camera stays inches from Saul’s face; the
Heavily inspired by the "Scrolls of Auschwitz," hidden documents written by Sonderkommando members. Son of Saul
He becomes obsessed with giving the boy a proper Jewish burial with a rabbi, rather than seeing him cremated.
Saul’s quest is "irrational" in a death camp, but it represents a final act of spiritual defiance.
Explores the moral complexity of prisoners forced to aid their captors to survive.
