PARIS — “Son of Saul,” the debut feature by the Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes that had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last month, will be Hungary’s submission for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, the country’s film fund announced Thursday.
Set at Auschwitz–Birkenau, the film recounts a day in the life of Saul Ausländer, a member of the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jews forced to carry out the Nazi plan of industrial-scale murder. The film keeps the camera trained almost entirely on the face of Saul, played by a first-time actor, Geza Rohrig, as he tries to bury a boy he believes is his son amid the chaos of the death camp.
“Son of Saul” won the Cannes grand prize, or second place, at a ceremony in May.
In an interview at Cannes during the festival, Mr. Nemes, 38, said he wanted to move beyond conventional ways of depicting the Holocaust on film, and to “reduce the distance” between the viewer and Saul in order to reveal the character’s moral complexity. He also said he had had trouble raising money for the low-budget film in Europe and Israel.
Sony Pictures Classics picked up “Son of Saul” for distribution and expects to release it in the United States in December.
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