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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... Full description
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. |
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Item Description: |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015. 1.37:1 full screen. Special features: commentary with László Nemes, Géza Röhrig and Mátyás Erdély. |
Physical Description: |
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Format: |
DVD, region 1, (1.37:1) full screen; 5.1 Dolby Digital. |
Audience: |
MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity. CHV rating: 14A |
Production Credits: |
Film editor, Matthieu Taponier ; music, László Melis ; cinematographer, Mátyás Erdély. |