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Son of Saul, GFT until Thursday 12 May 2016

Son of Saul

GFT

Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars.

Until Thursday 12 May

Running time: 1h47m

Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, László Nemes’ astonishingly assured debut feature breaks from traditional depictions of the Holocaust in cinema. Saul Ausländer, a prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, is tasked with burning the corpses of his own people. However, when he finds the body of a boy he believes to be his son, he tries to save the remains in order to give the child a proper Jewish burial. A devastating portrait of life in a concentration camp, Nemes eschews the wider historical narrative in favour of maintaining a close-up, subjective portrayal of a single man’s experiences.

Specially commissioned programme notes will be available.

Director László Nemes
Cast Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
Hungary 2015, 1h47m, subtitles, 15

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GFT, 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB

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