![]() Saul moves like a specter through Auschwitz to find a rabbi for a proper burial, caring not for survival, only for the honor of this dead boy. ![]() ![]() Saul decides then that he must bury the boy with full Hebrew rites. While piling the prisoners’ bodies, the kommandos find a boy who survived the gas chamber. The sonderkommandos, a group of concentration camp workers, directed other prisoners into the gas chambers, removed the dead bodies, rummaged the remains, and burnt them. The film, by Hungarian director László Nemes, and winner of this year’s Oscar for a Foreign Language Film, follows Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a sonderkommando at Auschwitz. I can’t relay the intensity of Son of Saul accurately you can only know by watching it, but, for the sake of the review, suffice it to say you witness hell.
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