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This is Rebecca Loew or Rebecca Loewa if you listen to suboptimal radio and you are listening to Men in Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

Welcome to Men in Blazers Oscar Wheat Pod Special. Quick warning up front. This interview covers themes which fall outside of our website.

It's a very important topic for our normal focus. But one of the things that most draws me to football is a light it sheds on the human condition.

Occasionally I watch a piece of culture that is so startling I want to introduce it to our audience and the hope that one or two of you might find it meaningful.

The Hungarian film Son of Saul which is up for an Oscar for best foreign film this Sunday is one such piece of work.

For most of the 107 minute running time the camera stays fixed in close up to the face of one inmate at Auschwitz-Burke now as he charges around the death camp trying to bury a boy he believes is his son.

He's been assigned to work as a son the command though one of the men who were cruelly tasked with driving new arrivals into the gas chamber and then disposing of their bodies clothing and possessions in the immediate aftermath.

I was blown away by the film and it's harrowing audacity both in content and style and the more I read about its young Hungarian director Lazló Nemesh the more I admired this story and began to talk about the film.

I began to wonder how he pulled off such a feat.

What kind of a 38 year old would make such a film and go where very few artists would dare to go?

What would motivate him to dedicate a recorder of his life to scrape together one and a half million dollars and craft a project without ever knowing if it would find an audience?

And what did it feel like when he proceeded to win the grand prize of this year's Can Film Festival and the best international film at the Golden Globes and how has the tumult of the Oscar nomination changed his life as the Oscars themselves await this Sunday?

I was thrilled when Lazló agreed to step in, come to New York and talk to me about his life, motivation and creative process.

Here it is then, my conversation with Oscar nominated film director Lazló Nemesh.

Our guest today is a Hungarian writer and director whose very first feature, Son of Saul, is among the nominees at this weekend's Academy Awards.

We welcome to the pod and we really welcome to the pod the one and only Mr Lazló Nemesh.

Lazló, would Voslet.

Oh thank you very much for having me.

I am so elated to have you, your film was and is my favourite of the past 12 months that I have seen and I've grappled with it ever since.

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