Son of Saul = Saul fia / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & László Nemes ; producers, Gábor Sipos & Gábor Rajna ; director, László Nemes.

Title
: 
Son of Saul = Saul fia / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Laododon Filmgroup presents with the support of the Hungarian National Film Fund and the Claims Conference ; screenplay by Clara Royer & László Nemes ; producers, Gábor Sipos & Gábor Rajna ; director, László Nemes.

Publication Information
: 
Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]

Physical Description
: 
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
: 
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.
 
1.37:1 full screen.
 
Special features: commentary with László Nemes, Géza Röhrig and Mátyás Erdély.
 
DVD, region 1, (1.37:1) full screen; 5.1 Dolby Digital.

Summary
: 
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.

Corporate Subject
: 
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Drama.

Subject Term
: 
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama.
 
Fathers and sons -- Drama.
 
Foreign language films.

Genre
: 
Feature films.
 
Historical films.
 
Fiction films.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
 
Films for the hearing impaired.
 
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
 
Films for people with visual disabilities.
 
Hungarian language films.
 
Hungarian language materials.

Added Author
: 
Royer, Clara,
 
Sipos, Gábor,
 
Rajna, Gábor
 
Nemes, László, 1977-
 
Röhrig, Géza, 1967-
 
Molnar, Levente,
 
Rechn, Urs,
 
Charmont, Todd,

Added Corporate Author
: 
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
 
Laododon Filmgroup.
 
Magyar Nemzeti Filmalap.
 
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Language Note
: 
Hungarian dialogue; Spanish, Portuguese, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); English described video (DVS).

Audience
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MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity. CHV rating: 14A

Performer
: 
Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sandor Zsoter, Marcin Czarnik, Amitai Kedar.

Production Credits
: 
Film editor, Matthieu Taponier ; music, László Nemes ; cinematographer, Mátyás Erdély.


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Apple Valley (Galaxie)Digital Video DiscDVD SonEntertainment DVDs
Lakeville (Heritage)Digital Video DiscDVD SonEntertainment DVDs