SON OF SAUL

Weeks ago in La Cate, located in Figueres, perform for the first time the famous and award-winning movie: Son of Saul. This event was impressive because La Cate is a cultural entity that together with another association, in which some of our history teachers are involved to remember the holocaust and all the dead from World War II, gave us the opportunity of saw this film. So in this entry I’ll do a summary of this amazing film that reflect well the situation of the prisoners of the Concentration Camps.

This film is about one Hungarian Jewish prisoner, named Saul, who is member of the Sonderkommando. He was forced to work burning the corpses of all the people that was murdered in gas chambers, even his family and friends. Among the dead, Saul discovered the body of a young boy he takes for his son and tries to save the dead body of the children for the flames of crematorium to find moral survival. Apart from there, all the film Saul tries to find a rabbi in the prisoners to give the boy a proper burial in secret.

In my view this film is so stunning because in the film we can see a lot of images that years ago were real, for example how Nazis lying to get them, all the prisoners, into a gas chamber or how they do experiments on prisoners. I also think that the film reflects well the hard work of Sonderkommando and how people tried to find a way to find a moral survival to feeling alive in that Heel.