Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film, won a Golden Globe Award and the Grand Prix at Cannes.

In 1944, German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 48 hours in the life of Paul Auslander, a member of the Sonderkommando - a branch of Jewish prisoners forced to assist in the great machine of the Nazi Holocaust - shortly before the outbreak of rebellion. In fact, that can not possibly comprehend the situation, with no chance of survival, Saul is trying to save in herself what was left of the man he once was.

The debut of 38-year-old László Nemes breaks through previous typical stories about the Holocaust narrative films. Director resigns from the epic scale that creates the illusion that we are able to grasp the scale of the crime. Film Nemes has maximum realism and perspective of looking at the individual parts of hell.

"The son of Saul" was a profound need authenticity and meticulous documentation and production artists took five years. Perhaps that is why Claude Lanzmann, the creator of the legendary documentary "Shoah", foe film productions Holocaust, came after the screening to Nemes and thanked him for the film.

"The son of Saul" is perfect, shocking and gripping picture that will go into the history of cinema.