Not another Holocaust movie

Rating: 7/10 (27 August 2015)

Saul Auslander is a Hungarian Jewish prisoner in one of the death camps in 1944. We don't know how he got there or who he really is/was but from his blank face we can conclude that he is crushed from suffering and sees no hope anymore. Cinematography is amazing and actor Géza Röhrig was a perfect choice for this type of shooting. Through Saul's POV we can experience the life and it's horrors in a death camp even though torturing or death scenes are merely visible which was the point I believe because that's not what the director wanted to show as main story. We see that much more of it is happening which requires additional explanation but director forced us not to care.
What I saw in this film is a simple human being trying to find his purpose and positive emotions when all hope and sanity is lost. Saul wanted to bury a little boy who survived the gas chamber and was killed then by the doctors, so he said that he was his son. We don't know if he really was his son or he went insane or he just wanted to explain in that way to his group because he felt sympathy for the boy. He goes through a lot of barriers to get his body and find a rabbi for the funeral and doesn't give up in spite of his group, killing, fire etc. Was all that running for one dead body selfish or was the rest of the group selfish for not helping him but only deceiving him? But that's not all to question, there are many more shots which give a microscopic look on the group and it's members in such situations which gives this film a kind of special effect. The spectator really has to get in close to see and hear all of it.
I really enjoyed most of it, however, I am not so amazed by the ending...