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Son of Saul / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & L�aszl�o Nemes ; producers, G�abor Sipos & G�abor Rajna ; director, L�aszl�o Nemes.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 46694 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: Hungarian Original language: Hungarian Subtitle language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Publisher: Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Film editor, Matthieu Taponier ; music, L�aszl�o Nemes ; cinematographer, M�aty�as Erd�ely.
Cast: Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sandor Zsoter, Marcin Czarnik, Amitai Kedar.Summary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausl�nder 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.
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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 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.

DVD, region 1, (1.37:1) full screen; 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Hungarian dialogue; Spanish, Portuguese, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video.

Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sandor Zsoter, Marcin Czarnik, Amitai Kedar.

Film editor, Matthieu Taponier ; music, L�aszl�o Nemes ; cinematographer, M�aty�as Erd�ely.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.

1.37:1 full screen.

MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity. CHV rating: 14A

October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausl�nder 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.

Special features: commentary with L�aszl�o Nemes, G�eza R�ohrig and M�aty�as Erd�ely.

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