Director László Nemes Jeles said after the film’s screening that the international distributor had received so many offers for the picture’s distribution rights that he had had to “switch off his phone”.

The director said American professionals see the film as a potential contender at the next Academy Awards, which was why the US bought its distribution rights.

“Son of Saul” takes place at the Auschwitz concentration camp and tells the story of the final day-and-ahalf in the life of Saul Auslaunder, a fictional Jewish member of the death camp’s Sonderkommando charged with aiding with the disposal of gas chamber victims.

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