While Nelson’s characters in The Grey Zone are obsessed with saving the life of a young girl who survived her time in the gas chambers, Nemes’ film focuses solely on one characters personal obsession with granting the correct religious burial rights to a young boy, who after surviving the gas chambers is murdered by an SS solider. 15 years after the release of The Grey Zone, writer and director László Nemes’ film Son of Saul is both original and unique, offering something new to the genre of holocaust films that renders the subject more authentic than theatrical.īoth films share almost identical story lines with there being only one defining difference. Miklós Nyiszli’s book, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account. Surrounded by the horror of living in Auschwitz, Saul, a Sonderkommando, attempts to bury the body of a boy who he claims as his son.īased on the same source material as Tim Blake Nelson’s film The Grey Zone, Son of Saul is a more extensive re-imagining of Dr.
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