László Nemes on the Challenges of Creating 'Son of Saul'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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First-time director László Nemes knew it would be tough to find funding for his intensely realistic Holocaust film, but he had no idea the level of resistance he'd face. He tells us how he went from having the movie no one wanted to touch to being a Cannes darling and Oscar contender.

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0:41.4	and there was a refusal from everybody.
0:44.9	Actually, people were running away from us.
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0:52.3	Laslo Nemesh knew finding a backer for his Holocaust film,
0:55.8	Son of Saul would not be easy. He finally found help in his home country of Hungary, and Son of
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