OSCAR® WINNER “SON OF SAUL” Debuting on Blu-ray April 26
SON OF SAUL, Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Independent Spirit Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital on April 26 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. A powerful feature film debut from director László Nemes, this Sony Pictures Classics film is anchored by a compelling performance by Géza Röhrig and superb cinematography by Mátyás Erdély. In addition to the winning the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award, SON OF SAUL won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and was named the Best Foreign Language Film by associations including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Continue on to learn more about this upcoming Blu-ray release.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“One of the Best Pictures of the Year.”
— Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Extraordinary. Formally daring and narratively gripping.”
— Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
Academy Award® Winner, Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe® Winner, Best Foreign Language Film
Independent Spirit Award Winner, Best International Film
SON OF SAUL
Debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital April 26
Bonus Features Include Q&A at the Museum of Tolerance
& Filmmaker Commentary
CULVER CITY, Calif. (February 29, 2016) – SON OF SAUL, Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Independent Spirit Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital on April 26 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. A powerful feature film debut from director László Nemes, this Sony Pictures Classics film is anchored by a compelling performance by Géza Röhrig and superb cinematography by Mátyás Erdély. In addition to the winning the Academy Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award, SON OF SAUL won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and was named the Best Foreign Language Film by associations including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. SON OF SAUL was an official selection at the 2015 Toronto International and New York Film Festivals.
Special features on SON OF SAUL include a commentary with director László Nemes, actor Géza Röhrig and cinematographer Mátyás Erdély as well as a Q&A with Nemes, Röhrig and Erdély at the Museum of Tolerance and a deleted scene.
Synopsis
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
SON OF SAUL is directed by László Nemes, with a screenplay by Nemes and Clara Royer. Produced by Gábor Sipos and Gábor Rajna. Cinematography by Mátyás Erdély. The film stars Géza Röhrig.
Special Features:
- Commentary with director László Nemes, actor Géza Röhrig and cinematographer Mátyás Erdély
- Museum of Tolerance Q&A with director László Nemes, actor Géza Röhrig and cinematographer Mátyás Erdély
- Deleted Scene
SON OF SAUL has a running time of 107 minutes. It is rated R for disturbing violent content and some graphic nudity. The film is in Hungarian, Yiddish, German, Russian and Polish with English subtitles.
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