Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Hungarian
- Country
- Hungary
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Hungarian — subtitles on.
The story
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
- prisoner
- world war ii
- son
- auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp
- rabbi
- 1940s
- sonderkommando
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jerzy Walczak — Rabbi Frankel
- Balázs Farkas — Saul's Son
- Gergö Farkas — Saul's Son
- Sándor Zsótér — Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
- Marcin Czarnik — Feigenbaum
- Levente Orbán — Russian Prisoner
- Kamil Dobrowolski — Mietek
- Uwe Lauer — Oberscharführer Voss
- Christian Harting — Oberscharführer Busch
- Attila Fritz — Yankl
- Mihály Kormos — Schlojme
- Directed
- László Nemes
- Written
- László Nemes, Clara Royer
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,188 ratings
- Studio
- Laokoon Filmgroup
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