Holocaust drama “Son of Saul” won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in Hollywood on Sunday, with Magyar director László Nemes accepting the award from Dame Helen Mirren; as she pointed out, this is the first time a Hungarian film has earned this honor. After already winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, “Son of Saul” is now favored to earn the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well, and in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Nemes spoke of plans for filming his next movie in Budapest.
“This is unreal,” said Nemes upon receiving the Golden Globe trophy, before thanking his cast, crew, producers, and the Hungarian Film Fund for their participation in this riveting movie that closely follows the devastating travails of one prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, played by Géza Rörhig. “The Holocaust has become, over the years, an abstraction. For me, it’s more a face, a human face; let’s not forget this face.”
After earning two of 2015’s most prestigious film awards and being shortlisted for an Oscar, Son of Saul is poised to achieve a brilliant cinematic trifecta of prizes that would shine brightly for the entire Hungarian film industry – and in an interview last week with the Los Angeles Times, Nemes spoke of his plans to come home to Budapest to make his next movie.
“I have a feature about a young woman before the First World War in Hungary. It’s a dark fairy tale,” states Nemes. “It’s still in development – I’m writing it. But my plan is to work with the same team. I will shoot it in Hungary, in Budapest.”
