Fateless

Name: Fateless
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 10 Feb 2005
Rating: 6.90
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény, Péter Fancsikai

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Year: 2005

Genre: War, Drama

Studio: Hungarian Motion Picture Ltd., Magic Media, EuroArts, Renegade Films, Hungarian Television, MDR, Cinema Soleil, Eurimages, Hungarian Historic Foundation, Ingenious Media, The Israeli Film Council, MFG Filmförderung, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Recanati Foundation

Director: Lajos Koltai

Cast: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény, Péter Fancsikai, Zsolt Dér

Crew: Lajos Koltai (Director), Ennio Morricone (Original Music Composer), Imre Kertész (Writer), Gyula Pados (Director of Photography), Hajnal Sellő (Editor), Péter Barbalics (Producer)

Runtime: 140 minutes

Release: Feb 10, 2005

IMDb: 6.90/10 by 82 users

Language: עִבְרִית, English, Polski, Deutsch, Magyar,

Budget: 250,000

Revenue: 2,512,009

Keyword : budapest, hungary, concentration camp, world war ii, hungary

Comment

Andres Gomez 2013, Oct 12

An interesting movie about the personal experience of a Hungarian Jew during the Holocaust. Still, you cannot really empathize with the weird apathetic personality of the main character until the last reflections of the movie.