'Son of Saul': An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp

The Hungarian Holocaust drama "Son of Saul" was just nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar, and many prognosticators consider it a shoo-in to win. Directed and co-written by László Nemes, the film stars newcomer Géza Röhrig as Saul, a member of a Sonderkommando unit in a Nazi death camp -- a team of Jewish prisoners who were spared death, if only briefly, to work in the crematoriums and gas chambers. In the course of his duties at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Saul finds a dead boy whom he ...