SON OF SAUL Wins Oscar for Foreign Language Film
Hungary's SON OF SAUL has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The film was directed by László Nemes. This is the ninth Academy Award nomination for Hungary. Previous nominations were:
HANUSSEN (1988)Nominee, Foreign Language Film COLONEL REDL (1985)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film JOB'S REVOLT (1983)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film MEPHISTO (1981)
Winner, Foreign Language Film CONFIDENCE (1980)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film HUNGARIANS (1978)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film CATS' PLAY (1974)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film THE BOYS OF PAUL STREET (1968)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film
About the film: In October 1944, Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, a group of Jewish prisoners forced to lead other inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau to their deaths and dispose of their bodies in the crematoriums. One day, Saul finds a young boy and, taking him for his son, tries to arrange for a proper Jewish funeral for him.
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