The Embassy of Israel and Embassy of Hungary in cooperation with the University of the Philippines Film Institute proudly present SON OF SAUL
DATE: March 12, 2018, Monday | 7PM
FREE ADMISSION on a first-come, first-served basis
DIRECTOR: LÁSZLÓ NEMES
SYNOPSIS:
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.
AWARDS:
2015 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prix Winner
2016 Oscar Winner for Foreign Film
2016 Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign Film
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