

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.
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Géza Röhrig
Saul Ausländer

Levente Molnár
Abraham

Urs Rechn
Eli Biederman

Todd Charmont
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Jerzy Walczak
Rabbi Frankel
Balázs Farkas
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Gergö Farkas
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Sándor Zsótér
Dr. Miklós Nyiszli

Marcin Czarnik
Feigenbaum

Levente Orbán
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Kamil Dobrowolski
Mietek

Uwe Lauer
Oberscharführer Voss
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