Holocaust film in Perth for Memorial Day show
To help mark Holocaust Memorial Day, Perth Film Society will be showing the highly acclaimed film, ‘Son of Saul’ on Thursday, January 26.
Holocaust Memorial Day is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and January 27 is forever dedicated to the remembrance of those who suffered in all genocides.
The film showing in Perth is set in Auschwitz in late 1944, when Saul Ausländer, a Hungarian member of the camp’s Sonderkommando, is being forced to police the extermination of his fellow camp inmates.
The Sonderkommando was an isolated group of Jewish prisoners who were given tiny, temporary privileges, while being forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he believes is his son.
He decides to carry out a series of impossible tasks: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
It is a way for Saul to find moral survival in a place of unspeakable hell.
Although still a very new title, the movie directed by László Rajk has taken its rightful place in the debate concerning cinema and the Holocaust.
It won the Grand Prix award at Cannes, and the best foreign film at the 2016 Oscars.
Son of Saul is in Hungarian with English subtitles, Cert 15, Norie-Miller Studio, Perth Concert Hall, 7.45pm.
Tickets £6 at the door, seniors/unwaged/students £5.
Son of Saul’, a film set in the Nazi death camps