![]() ![]() Marked with giant red “X’s” on the backs of their frayed jackets, Sonderdommando like Saul pick the valuables from the clothing of the Jews who have just stripped naked, even as he hears their screams from the “showers” behind the door. ![]() Saul is the traumatized, moving-by-rote prisoner in Auschwitz who must do the unspeakable work of the Sonderkommando. ![]() This plea, daring and heartfelt, is uttered by the character of Saul Auslander (Geza Rohrig) in the haunting, harrowing Son of Saul, the debut film by Jewish Hungarian filmmaker Laszlo Nemes that has been nominated for best foreign film in the Academy Awards and already won the Golden Globe Award for a foreign film – a first for a Hungarian film.
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