2015 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. László Nemes · France, Hungary · German, Greek
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In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
"The brute force is punishing, but there's real moral and intellectual rigour behind it."
— Craig Williams
"It has sometimes been suggested that there's little more to be said, in cinematic terms, [about the Holocaust].... The single-minded power and visceral immediacy of Nemes's achievement, rightly acclaimed and awarded, prove otherwise."
— Philip Kemp
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