Budapest: Countries usually celebrate when their filmmakers are nominated for an Oscar. Not so in Hungary, where Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes, had been nominated for an Academy award. In fact, some Hungarians responded with anti-Semitic abuse to the news that an acclaimed movie set during the Holocaust could win this year's award for best foreign film. Son of Saul won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival last northern summer and took a Golden Globe this month for its searing portrayal of a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz trying to give a dignified burial to the body of a boy he takes for his son. It made an international star of Hungarian actor Geza Rohrig, who plays...
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