![]() Most of the Sonderkommandos lasted only a few months some of them entered the gas chambers willingly, rather than continue. ![]() ![]() He is at the epicentre of the Nazis' unspeakable project, waiting for his turn to die. Saul helps to calm the people entering the gas chambers and to clear the bodies afterwards he helps at the crematoria and with the disposal of the ashes. This is Saul (Geza Rohrig), a member of the Sonderkommando, the "special" force of (mostly) Jewish prisoners who worked in every phase of the extermination process. From here on, we almost never leave that position, at this man's side, looking at his face in medium close-up. He is gaunt, grim-faced, dark-eyed, in a dirty cap and camp clothes. A man walks towards the camera, stopping when he is almost on top of the lens, now in focus. ![]()
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