Son of Saul (Saul fia) WINNER Academy Awards (Oscars) / Golden Globes - Best Foreign Language Film Cannes 2015 - Grand Jury Prize Director: László Nemes Main actor: Géza Röhrig
Triple disc, digipack, Limited, Numbered, Special
Product Info Blu-ray and 2 DVDs
Region: Blu-ray B
DVD - Region 2 (Europe (except Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), Middle-East, Swaziland, Lesotho, Greenland, overseas territories of France)
Running time: 107 minutes Picture / acceptance ratio (DVD and Blu-ray too): 4:3
AUDIO: DVD - Hungarian Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 plus DTS 5.1 Blu-ray - Hungarian DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitle (DVD and Blu-ray): Hungarian (for Hearing Impaired), English, French
Extras (on DVD in SD, on BD in Full HD resolution) -
28 pages digibook (about the historical background of the movie and the artistic concept) -
Limited and Numbered 35 mm celluloid frame from the movie
DVD 1st disc: Audio Commentray with Nemes Jeles László (director-writer), Erdély Mátyás (cinematographer) és Krasznahorkai Balázs (assistant of the director)
DVD 2nd disc: Patience (14 minutes) – short film of Nemes Jeles László Deleted scene (2 minutes) Scenes from shooting ("b-roll") (21 minutes) Meet and Greet with the creators (26 minutes) About Hungarian gala screening (2 minutes) Hungarian artists about the movie (3 minutes) Trailer TV spot
Son of Saul (Hungarian: Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer. It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul Ausländer (played by Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando.[4] The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. It was also shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. It is the ninth Hungarian film to be nominated for the award, and the first since István Szabó's Hanussen in 1988. It is the second Hungarian film to win the award, the first being Szabó's Mephisto in 1981. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Hungarian film to win the award.