ART AND THE HOLOCAUST - The Making of SON OF SAUL.
By Concordia University in collaboration with, The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centrer, The Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies, The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, the Canadian-Hungarian Democratic Charter
Date and time
Fri, Nov 4, 2016 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Location
Concordia University H Building
1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest room H-635 Montréal, QC H3G 1M8 CanadaDescription
LÁSZLÓ RAJK, Human Rights activist and Artistic Director of the Oscar winning film, Son of Saul, will talk about the challanges faced by the artist in recreating Auschwitz. and the horrors of the Holocaust. He will highlight some aspects of the film, that are unique to the genre, and also talk about the reception of the film in Hungary, a country that sent close to 600,000 of its Jewish citizens to the gas chambers during WWII.