The Hungarian Ambassador presented the film with Géza Röhrig./ Photo: Hungary’s Embassy
Alberto Rubio. Madrid
The ambassadors of Hungary, Israel, Slovakia and the United Kingdom, as well as the director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, attended, on Tuesday, the preview of the Hungarian film “Son of Saul” at Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid.
The preview of the film, awarded the Golden Globe (the entrance hall to the Oscar) last week, gathered a large audience interested in the new view of the Holocaust that the work of László Nemes offers.
The film tells, from a very subjective point of view, the story of a “sonderkommando”, Saúl Ausländer, played by actor Géza Röhrig, who, after the screening, took part in a discussion with the audience. During the talk, Röhrig contributed details about the complexity of his character and how he prepared for it.
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“It is only through memory that will we prevent humanity from perpetrating inhuman acts”, Enikő Győri declared
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Earlier, Hungary’s Ambassador to Spain, Enikő Győri, was pleased about the possibility of “Son of Saul” being the first film from her country to win an Oscar to the Best Foreign Language Film and she pointed out that “humans want to learn from history, because we want to continue being humans and it is only through memory that will we prevent humanity, even at the most difficult times, from perpetrating inhuman acts again”.
The director of the Centro Sefarad-Israel, Miguel de Lucas, affirmed that the value of this film and, in general, that of keeping Shoah’s memory alive, is “to prevent atrocities such as the Holocaust from happening again”, which filled Europe with terror in the forties.
Among those attending the screening at Círculo de Bellas Artes, were also present Israel’s Ambassador, Daniel Kutner; Slovakia’s Ambassador, Vladimir Gracz, and the United Kingdom’s Ambassador, Simon Manley.
