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Son of saul director12/27/2022 ![]() To learn more about Nemes’ landmark freshman showing, The Times of Israel caught up with the 38-year-old director during a whirlwind press tour. Under a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classic, “Son of Saul” opens December 18 in New York and LA, and will be screened in Israel this January and February. Whether it receives an official Oscar nomination remains to be seen - final nominations are announced on January 14. It is both a nominee for the January 10 Golden Globe awards for best foreign film and Hungary’s submission for the same category for the Academy Award. The pic has played the Toronto, AFI, Telluride and New York Film Festivals, claiming recognition as “Best Foreign Language Film” from more than 10 film critics associations and the National Board of Review Awards. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)įive years in the making, “Son of Saul” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the acclaimed Gran Prix du Jury. An alumnus of the Sorbonne and the Institute of Political Studies, at 26, Nemes returned to his ancestral land to study filmmaking.ĭirector Laszlo Nemes, right, is presented the Grand Prix award by actor Mads Mikkelsen for the film ‘Son of Saul’ during the awards ceremony at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 24, 2015. The film’s now-celebrated director Nemes is a native Hungarian who emigrated to Paris with his mother when he was aged 12, around the fall of Communism in 1989. Meanwhile, the Sonderkommando, “the bearers of secrets” who were fed, housed and even clothed distinctly from other prisoners, attempt what becomes a short-lived revolt.įormer Sonderkommando members had penned the material now known as ‘Voices from Beneath the Ashes,’ then buried and hid their testimonies before the Nazi death camp’s historical 1944 rebellion ![]() ![]() Little else comes into clear focus, and nothing is explained, suggesting the actual chaos of the extermination experience. In the camp’s cacaphony of German, Hungarian and Yiddish, the camera follows Saul and his comrades. In the madness of the death factory, Saul seeks a proper burial and a rabbi to say kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.
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