The Hungarian Film SON of SAUL-A Soul's Journey in Auschwitz

Hungarian director Laslo Nemes' 1st feature film SON of SAUL won the Grand Prix in the 2015 Film Festival.  The Germ/Hungarian/ langue movie with English subtitles is a relentless exposure to the heinous, systematic mass murders of WWII seen through the eyes of a Jewish prisoner, Saul.  Saul is a  "Sonder-Kommando:" Jewish prisoner that abetted Nazis leading people to their deaths and transferring  corpses to the crematorium.  They clean the gas chambers & scavange belongings for valuables.  In exchange, "Son-Kommandos" are kept alive (temporarily) & provided better rations/conditions.  This is by far the most excruciating film I have ever experienced.  The movie makes you endure the unbearable (unless you elect to leave or choose not to witness the atrocities of WWII.)  Saul herds men/women into shedding their clothes & into the "showers" knowing he is leading them into the gas chambers.  There are multitudes of strewn, unclothed bodies.  We are spared seeing faces of the dead except for a young boy miraculously found breathing when they enter to remove the dead.  The nazi commandant suffocates the boy & orders his autopsy.  Saul takes extreme risks putting himself & fellow  "Kommandos" in peril by seeking a Jewish burial for this boy he claims as his son.  Perhaps Saul is no longer capable of participating in the mass murders of his fellow Jews and is seeking some redemption.  This is not a movie to recommend or condemn.  It is a momentous testament to the atrocities inflicted on mankind.  Nonetheless, there are no innocent bystanders.