harrowing unrelenting horrors

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2016)

It's October 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian Jew working as a Sonderkommando member. They clean up the gas chamber, clear the bodies, and collect the prisoners' belongings. One boy manages to survive the gassing. The Nazi doctor suffocates the boy and orders an autopsy. Saul steals the body and tries to recruit a rabbi to give the boy a proper burial.
This is a harrowing tale. It is unrelenting and unforgiving. The point of view camera style takes the audience right into the horrors. It gives the audience a front row seat. One could almost smell the sick in the gas chamber. This movie takes hold and never lets go.