{"id":71624,"date":"2016-02-29T02:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71624"},"modified":"2016-02-29T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:52:58","slug":"hungarian-drama-son-of-saul-wins-best-foreign-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/hungarian-drama-son-of-saul-wins-best-foreign-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian drama ‘Son of Saul’ wins best foreign film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laszlo Nemes, director of Son of Saul, receives the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy of The Oscar<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES\u2014\u201cSon of Saul,\u201d the harrowing drama about a Sonderkommando at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, won the best foreign language film award at the Oscars Sunday night.<\/p>\n

The Hungarian film from first-time director Laszlo Nemes was largely expected to win the prize and has been sweeping many of the awards from the Golden Globes to the Independent Spirit Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in the darkest hours of mankind there’s the voice within us that allows us to remain human,\u201d said Nemes after accepting the award.<\/p>\n

Nemes also thanked his lead actor G\u00e9za R\u00f6hrig, who was in nearly every frame of the film as a Jewish concentration camp worker on one day in the camp where he becomes obsessed with giving a fallen child who he believes to be his son a proper burial.<\/p>\n

\u201cSon of Saul’s\u201d strongest competition was from France’s \u201cMustang,\u201d a Turkish-language film about the life of five young sisters living under sexist conditions in Turkey, also from a first-time director and the only female director nominated for a narrative film, Deniz Gamze Erguven.<\/p>\n

Also nominated were Colombia’s \u201cEmbrace of the Serpent,\u201d Jordan’s \u201cTheeb,\u201d and Denmark’s \u201cA War.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the second win in this category for Hungary\u2014the country won once before in 1981 for \u201cMephisto.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year’s winner was the black and white Polish drama \u201cIda,\u201d about a woman in 1962 trying to decide whether or not to become a nun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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