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IMDb rating 7.4
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Critic rating 9.1

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Critic Christy Lemire
rated 8

...a marvel of controlled filmmaking—a bold vision carried out with powerful simplicity, and an impressively assured debut form both Nemes and Röhrig as his star.

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Critic A.A. Dowd
rated 9

...also a pretty stunning formal accomplishment, especially coming from a first-time filmmaker.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Marc Savlov
rated 8

...a film unlike any other Holocaust film you’ve ever seen.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 10

By any standards, this would be an outstanding film, but for a debut it is remarkable.

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Critic Mark Kermode
rated 10

...glimmer of light in this appalling darkness, infinitesimal yet inextinguishable. Ultimately, it is that glimmer that makes Son of Saul so traumatic.

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Critic Phil De Semlyen
rated 10

It's a film that bores straight into your soul and leaves you shattered, but somehow richer for having seen it.

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Critic Mats Johnson
rated 8

...den viktigaste filmen som gjorts om Förintelsen...

Read full review at Göteborgsposten
Critic Jesper Olsen
rated 10

...et teknisk mesterværk, som med sit virtuose og transcendente filmsprog giver tilskueren et næsten ulideligt upyntet og intenst indblik i livet i helvedes forgemak.

Read full review at Soundvenue

Cast & Crew

László Nemes
Director
Björn Freiberg
As Extra
Sándor Zsótér
As Miklós (Jewish Doctor)
Levente Molnár
As Abraham

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In the depths of Auschwitz, a Hungarian Jew named Saul Ausländer finds himself forced to work in the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners tasked with assisting the Nazis in their extermination efforts. Amidst the unspeakable horrors of the camp, Saul discovers a glimmer of hope when he comes across a young boy's body that he takes to be his son. Determined to give the child a proper burial, Saul embarks on an impossible mission to save the body from the flames and find a rabbi to perform the funeral rites. In the face of unimaginable atrocities, Saul clings to this last shred of humanity as his only means of survival.

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