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The director of Son of Saul says more and more strange things
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Although Son of Saul won a Golden Globe and has been nominated for Oscar as well, the director seems more paranoid as happy, valasz.hu wrote.
The Golden Globe award and the Oscar nomination is a huge success, since Istvan Szabo’s Mephisto was the only Hungarian film until now that got this most prestigious prize, in 1982.
Valasz.hu collected a couple of strange comments that were said by the director.
He told about The New York Times that the American paper
“wrote two paragraphs about the Jewish genocide during the WW2 between two advertisements on the 17th page. This is their old innervation.”
Nemes Jeles told that it seems like the whole German film production was based on revisionism to calm the Germans down. He called it a falsification of history. He also said that, in Cannes, the German journalists turned away from his actors when they learned in which film they played.
The director said Downfall was “a perfect Third Reich propaganda”. According to him, Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not congratulate him. He commented on an Austrian’s damning critique about his movie: “Obviously, this is not a coincidence.”