While Son of Saul offers its own remarkably successful solutions and modes of cinematic transcendence portraying the ultimate sites of extermination, it does not convey an adequate understanding of gender relations transformed by the historical context of the Final Solution and the vital role of women in the Jewish resistance to the Nazi-orchestrated genocide. Ella's disconcerting neediness in the film seems uniquely misplaced onto a woman tortured by the Gestapo and hanged without having betrayed her accomplices. Pursuing a project of reestablishing a hegemonic male discourse over the Holocaust, the film also portrays a female inmate as one of the four women who made the 7 October 1944 Sonderkommando revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau possible by smuggling in the explosives for the insurgents. Son of Saul effectively swaps the body of this teenage girl with the body of a boy in order to re-create a foundational patrilineal story of powerful ideological impact and legitimating force. A young Hungarian girl's survival of a Zyklon B gassing became exceptional among other incidents of survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau due to the medical assistance offered and the resuscitation administered by the Hungarian medical doctor of the crematoria, Miklos Nyiszli. Simultaneously, it radically re-genders an exceptional survival scene recorded as autobiographical truth by witness testimony. The film disrupts canonical notions of visual representation of the special squads of Jewish inmates, or Sonderkommando, forced to work in the crematoria. 1 Detta var andra gången en ungersk film vann. László Nemes's 2015 production, Son of Saul ( Saul fia), is one of the most critically acclaimed Holocaust movies to date. Sauls son (originaltitel: Saul fia) är en ungersk dramafilm från 2015 regisserad av László Nemes.Den visades vid Filmfestivalen i Cannes 2015, där den tävlade för Guldpalmen och vann Grand Prix.Vid Oscarsgalan 2016 vann filmen priset i kategorin för Bästa icke-engelskspråkiga film.

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