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Elevator Pitch: A uniquely honest Holocaust drama.
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
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Overview
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
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Fresh
A powerful aural and visual experience that doesn't quite manage to sustain itself over the course of its running time, but is a remarkable -- and remarkably intense -- experience nonetheless.
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
The tight focus on one character to the exclusion of everything else can be exhausting to the viewer, but it never comes across as just a gimmick; it's too central to the story Nemes is telling.
Steve Pond, TheWrap
Fresh
An Auschwitz-set drama that's numbing, provocative and impossible to unsee.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
Hungarian helmer Laszlo Nemes and actor Geza Rohrig make a powerful debut with this grim, unyielding Holocaust drama.
Justin Chang, Variety
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