Saul was a Hungarian prisoner assigned to duty as a sonderkommando-a prisoner with the task of salvaging valuables from the clothing of the dead, removing their bodies from the gas chambers, and scrubbing the chambers’ floors.
Set in Auschwitz, this 2015 film directed by László Nemes follows a day-and-a-half in the life of a prisoner, Saul Ausländer. The villagers are on edge, as the film poses the question which still causes tension in Hungary: how complicit were the Hungarians in expelling their Jewish neighbors? The villagers are paranoid and fearful of their arrival, worried that they might have come to reclaim the Jewish property that residents had since claimed as their own. In this 2017 film, directed by Ferenc Török, two unknown Holocaust survivors arrive in a village in August 1945. They begin to fall in love during their dream, trying to recreate what happened in their shared dream and make it come true. After initial disbelief, they accept the situation, and decide to fall asleep in the same room. Two introverted people who work at a slaughterhouse find out by chance that they share the same dream every night. This 2017 drama, written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi, was nominated for an Oscar, and picked up a handful of other international awards. The Hungarian National Film Institute also has this list of 39 Hungarian classics (with subtitles) which are available to watch online, and this list has some additional options. The below list contains both classics and some newer releases. Now that movie theaters-along with everything else-are closed and we are all entertaining ourselves at home, why not open a bottle of Hungarian wine and dig into some Hungarian film history. But Hungarians, in their own right, have long been successful and influential filmmakers, both in Hungary and other countries. Budapest has become a favorite filming location for Hollywood productions, in particular the Palace District where the Tasting Table is located.
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