Budapest - A contender at this year's Cannes festival, "Son of Saul", is a "different" kind of Holocaust movie, homing in on one man's ordeal over two days rather than the full scope of the tragedy, says its Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes.
The 38-year-old's first-ever feature film will make its world premiere in the Palme d'Or competition at the French festival, which runs between May 13 and 24.
"We use a 'less is more' approach; we are in the shoes of one man over a short traumatic period," says Budapest-born Nemes, who lived in Paris between the ages of 12 and 26.
The movie tells the story of two days in 1944 in a German concentration camp where Saul, a Hungarian Jew forced to burn corpses in a crematorium, believes he has discovered his son amid the bodies, and endeavours to give him a proper burial.
Nemes -- who used to work as an assistant to acclaimed Hungarian director Bela Tarr -- has already released three short films, which have won over 30 prizes at international festivals.
AFP
