He works stoically, seemingly having been numbed by the daily horrors. His job is to salvage valuables from the clothing of the dead, drag bodies from the gas chambers and scrub the chambers before the next group arrives to be gassed. In October 1944, Saul Ausländer works as a Sonderkommando Jewish–Hungarian prisoner in Auschwitz. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Hungarian film to win the award. It is the second Hungarian film to win the award, the first being Szabó's Mephisto in 1981. It is the ninth Hungarian film to be nominated for the award, and the first since István Szabó's Hanussen in 1988. The film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.
It was also shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix.
It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer (played by Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando. Son of Saul ( Hungarian: Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer.
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