A Colombian actress suggested that “Son of Saul” won the Academy Award for best foreign language film because “a large part of the industry and especially those who vote for the Oscar awards” are Jewish.
A Colombian actress suggested that “Son of Saul” won the Academy Award for best foreign language film because “a large part of the industry and especially those who vote for the Oscar awards” are Jewish.
The 88th annual Academy Awards are on Sunday and Jews will be making quite the appearance in the three-hour special: as nominees, presenters and plotlines.
In ‘Son of Saul,’ which has nabbed an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Geza Rohrig plays a member of the Sonderkommando. The Orthodox actor talks about his encounter with one of the last remaining members of those units in the Nazi death camps.
Hungarian Holocaust film “Son of Saul” nominated for best foreign language film at this year’s Academy Award.
The first question I asked Budapest-born Geza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ viscerally gripping film “Son of Saul”, was: “How did you come to the role — and why?”
A searing Holocaust film, “Son of Saul,” is one of five foreign-language movies nominated for a Golden Globe trophy.
‘Son of Saul’ makes its American debut at the New York film festival. A.J. Goldmann reports on the intensity and brutality of this film that focuses on a member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz.
The Holocaust drama “Son of Saul” received the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has created a stir at the Cannes film festival with his wrenching ‘Son of Saul,’ which portrays the Jewish ‘sonderkommando’ laborers who were forced to do the Nazis’ dirty work in death camps.