Kaleem Aftab talks to its uniquely qualified star and. “My secret plan is to make a world-famous actress out of a young Hungarian woman,” said the filmmaker. Inside Son of Saul, the Holocaust drama that was this years most shocking Oscar winner It was also last weekend’s most deserved victor. Son of Saul, the Hungarian Holocaust drama from first-time feature director Laszlo Nemes, won the Oscar on Sunday night for best foreign language film. Nemes said his next film, Sunset, set in Budapest in the 1910s, would be in Hungarian, but he was planning to develop several projects at once, including films in other languages. “It’s not my world,” said Rohrig, adding the volunteer seat fillers used to ensure there are never any empty seats during the ceremony “looked like a long line at the Lenin Mausoleum.” Geza Rohrig, who has received much praise for his portrayal of Auslander, said the Oscar ceremony “was a near clinical case of idiocy.” The film, set in 1944, takes viewers to a world dominated by the Nazi regime, more specifically the concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz.

Steven Spielberg told him that Son of Saul greatly contributed to the collective memory of the Holocaust and that he hadn’t expected that it would take so long after his 1993 drama Schindler’s List to make such a film. Son of Saul, directed by the 38-year-old Hungarian László Nemes, is a harrowing tale that has taken home the Grand Prix, an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and other supreme accolades. Nemes said that concentrating on one person, a Jewish prisoner forced to dispose of victims in a Nazi death camp, was important to him to “understand the individual.” The film follows Saul Auslander as he tries to give a religious burial to a boy who may have been his son.

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