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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish
1.37:1 full screen
Special features: commentary with László Nemes, Géza Röhrig and Mátyás Erdély
Film editor, Matthieu Taponier ; music, László Melis ; cinematographer, Mátyás Erdély
Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sandor Zsoter, Marcin Czarnik, Amitai Kedar
MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity. CHV rating: 14A
DVD, region 1, (1.37:1) full screen; 5.1 Dolby Digital
Hungarian dialogue; Spanish, Portuguese, English or French subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); described video