Laszlo Nemes opts for the Palme d'Or of the Cannes film festival with his first film as a director, «son of Saul«.
Although this is the first film by the Hungarian director, Laszlo Nemes' work has already been seen on another occasion at the French competition as he served as assistant director in the film of Béla Tarr y Agnes Hranitzky "A Londoni férfi", a film that participated in the official section in 2007.
Laszlo nemes He makes his feature film debut after several highly successful short films awarded in various competitions around the world.
«Saul fía», known internationally as «Son of Saul»And set in 1944 during the horror of the Auschwitz concentration camp, it tells the story of a prisoner in charge of burning the corpses of his own people who finds a certain moral survival trying to save a child from the crematorium ovens that he takes as your son.
A new drama about the Holocaust that comes to us from Hungary and that stars Géza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs invoice, Sandor Zsoter, which we saw last year in the film that won the award for best film in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival "White God", Todd charmont, Bjorn Freiberg y Uwe Lauer.