Hungarian film wins Golden Globe Award

The 'Son of Saul', a film directed by Hungary's László Nemes Jeles won the Golden Globe Award as the Best Motion Picture in the Foreign Language category in Los Angeles this Sunday. The movie is the first ever Hungarian film to have received this distinction.

The movie depicts two days in the life of a Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums. In order to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son, he tries to carry out his impossible deed: salvage the body and find a rabbi to bury it.

Speaking at the Golden Globe award ceremony, diretcor László Nemes Jeles stressed that "the Holocaust showed us the monster that really exists within the human being. It's a constant possibility that we can turn into that once more. We can still see genocides going on. We have to look into the human soul and cinema can do that in a very disturbing way. I think that's why I wanted to make this film. It's important for today's generation - and for the future generation - to understand that is is not history and it's not only a postcard, it's something that can be here and now."