The film takes place at the Auschwitz concentration camp and tells the story of Saul Auslaender, a fictional Jewish member of the death camp’s Sonderkommando charged with aiding with the disposal of gas chamber victims.

According to the Golden Globe website, this is the third time that a Hungarian film has been nominated for a Golden Globe, after Colonel Redl in 1986 and Hanussen in 1989.

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