Alone in Berlin vs Son of Saul
Son of Saul has the higher audience score (7.1/10 against 6.7/10 for Alone in Berlin). Alone in Berlin is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 1h 47m. Son of Saul is the older of the two (2015 against 2016). Both are drama, thriller, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Alone in Berlin
Son of Saul| Alone in Berlin | Son of Saul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2015 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 47m |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller, War | Drama, Thriller, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Vincent Perez | László Nemes |
| Main cast | Louis Hofmann, Brendan Gleeson, Lars Rudolph, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl | Urs Rechn, Marcin Czarnik, Mihály Kormos, Jerzy Walczak, Sándor Zsótér |
Synopsis
Alone in Berlin
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to…
Son of Saul
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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