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.
Saul Ausländer
Abraham
Eli Biederman
Bearded Prisoner
Rabbi Frankel
Saul's Son
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
Feigenbaum
Russian Prisoner
Mietek
Oberscharführer Voss
2001
2005
1987
1967
1999