The Son of Saul, a recent Golden Globe and Cannes festival recepient movie by Hungarian director László Nemes Jeles has been given the Academy Award in the foreign-language film category by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.
This is the second time ever for a Hungarian feature film to win an Oscar. The award for The Son of Saul comes 34 years after 'Mephisto', directed by István Szabó, received this recognition.
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.
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