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.
The film sticks to its protagonist's shoulder: tight frame, shallow focus, with the horror mostly blurred in the background and felt above all through sound. The pace is breathless and the view never detached, which makes the effect physical and exhausting. It does not explain, it pulls you into a single task.
Good for you if you look for Holocaust films that work through perception and atmosphere rather than explanation and can handle a harsh, intense film.
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