László Nemes’ Son of Saul (Saul fia), Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar hopeful in the foreign language film category, is a masterful debut feature that brings an entirely fresh visual language to Holocaust, to this most challenging of topics. The film focuses on Saul, a Jewish member of the Sonderkommando in an unnamed death camp, who after discovering the body of a boy who he takes for his son, is determined to give him a dignified burial. Avoiding the temptation to divide protagonists into good and bad, Nemes paints a disturbingly nuanced picture of the moral imperatives and daily realities faced by all.
Levente Molnár, who played Abraham in László Nemes’s masterful debut feature, is a Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) and London based actor and a member of the Hungarian Theatre of Kolozsvár. Apart from Son of Saul, he is known for his work in Marian Crisan’s Morgen (2010) and András Hatházi’s Tetemre hívás (2002). He is also a casting director and an artist’s agent. His agency, KoKino was established in 2008.
Henry FitzherbertHenry Fitzherbert is a film editor and screenwriter, who finds time, in between screenplay writing, to be the Sunday Express’s leading film critic.
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