Röhrig for helping to provide such a powerful and effective educational tool. The Claims Conference is truly grateful to Mr. While only a small piece of the Claims Conference’s work, the organization’s educational projects about the Shoah represent a critical element of its mission. Nemes and Mr. Röhrig have indicated they became involved with the film, in large part, because of its potential to educate others about the Shoah. While a fictional account, the film depicts a number of actual events that occurred on October 7, 1944, at Auschwitz, namely the rebellion by the Sonderkommandos in which they blew up Crematorium IV.īoth Mr. The film itself is an unrelentingly harrowing story of the impossible predicament of the Jewish Sonderkommandos at Auschwitz, forced, among other gruesome tasks, to work in the gas chambers and crematoria. The Claims Conference decision to support the making of this film forms part of its mission to help preserve and convey the memory of the Shoah.
FILM SON OF SAUL MOVIE
“Son of Saul” is the first movie of Hungarian director László Nemes, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It is the fictional account of a Hungarian Sonderkommando at Auschwitz in 1944 who, when he sees the dead body of a boy who reminds him of his son, embarks on a desperate quest to give the boy a ritually proper burial by a rabbi. Read the article: For Claims Conference, Oscar Nominee was a Big Gamble The Claims Conference was the only entity other than the Hungarian National Film Fund to contribute funding to the movie. The Claims Conference is proud to have supported this ground-breaking film that also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language. “Son of Saul,” the critically acclaimed film that received funding from the Claims Conference, has won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Director László Nemes accepts the Academy Award for “Son of Saul.”