The Jewish inmate and Sonderkommando worker finds his young son in the piles of bodies he clears from the gas chambers and demands he be given a Jewish funeral. The death camp story focuses on the story about the titular Saul ( Geza Rohrig, in his screen debut). It draws a painful portrait of Auschwitz in 1944. The debut film for the 38-year-old Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes (“ Türelem“), the former assistant to director Béla Tarr, is an auspicious one.
“T here’s no arguing its technical achievements, its star performance, its powerful story, or its greatness as a film. German and Yiddish, with English subtitles) Miklos Nyiszli ), Marcin Czarnik (Feigenbaum), Jerzy Walczak (Rabbi Frankel), Uwe Lauer (Oberscharführer Voss), Christian Harting (Oberscharführer Busch), Kamil Dobrowlski (Mietek), Levente Orban (Russian Prisoner), Attila Fritz (Yankl) Runtime: 107 MPAA Rating: R producer: Krisztina Pinter Sony Pictures Classics 2015-Hungary-in Hungarian. (director: László Nemes screenwriter: Clara Royer cinematographer: Matyas Erdely editor: Matthieu Taponier music: Laszlo Melis cast: Geza Rohrig (Saul Auslander), Levente Molnar ( Abraham Warszawski ), Urs Rechn ( Oberkapo Biederman ), Todd Charmont ( Bearded Prisoner ), Sandor Zsoter ( Dr.