They aided in the death camps with the murder of the Jewish prisoners by convincing and comforting them before bringing them to the gas chambers, and cleaning the mess afterward. It helps that he is part of the Sonderkommando, who receives preferential treatment and freedom of mobility, though still limited. A gargantuan task given the circumstance, Auschwitz in 1944, but the no-holds-barred, fully dedicated Saul somehow manages. The story is among the simplest: After spotting a dead body of a boy whom he takes to be his son, Hungarian prisoner Saul Auslander (Geza Rohrig) decides to give the boy a proper burial, which includes finding a rabbi to recite prayer. Is it possible to make a holocaust movie unlike any that came before? Laszlo Nemes achieves this with his first feature Son of Saul.
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