October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.

While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.

As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

MOVIE REVIEW

Son of Saul is a riveting Holocaust movie about a Jewish man’s neck and shoulders as he navigates the chaos of a concentration camp and does everything he can to not help his fellow prisoners escape.
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