"Son of Saul"

Film Screening for Int. Holocaust Remembrance Day

  • 1/22/2019
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    On the occasion of the International
    Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Embassy of Israel in Cyprus presents the Academy Award–winning film:
     
    "Son of Saul"
     
    Monday 28th January, 2019, 21.00, at Cine Studio, University of Nicosia (free entrance)
     
     
    Synopsis:
     
    In October 1944, Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, a group of Jewish prisoners forced to lead other inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau to their deaths and dispose of their bodies in the crematoriums. One day, Saul finds a young boy and, taking him for his son, tries to arrange for a proper Jewish funeral for him.