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Movie son of saul trailer9/24/2023 When the boy dies, Saul makes it his impossible goal to provide a Jewish burial. Tension surges when Saul finds a boy who has survived the gas. ![]() We see only what Saul sees, the more heinous acts blurred in the background, but all the more terrifying for that. ![]() Saul temporarily escapes the ovens by serving with the Sonderkommando, Jews coerced to help execute other Jews and dispose of the bodies. Nemes keeps his camera tightly focused on Saul Auslander (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz. You don’t merely witness horror, you feel it in your bones. ![]() But there’s nothing trivial about this Hungarian masterwork from first-time director László Nemes. As with every Holocaust film, Son of Saul will stir complaints that cinema is too trivial to encompass such profound evil.
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