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Fateless (2005)

– Fateless 2005
– Sorstalanság (original title)
– 2h 20 min. | Drama, Romance, War | 10 February 2005 (Hungary)

Storyline:

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.

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for some disturbing Holocaust images including nudity, and brief strong language.

User review:

‘Fateless’ was a never-seen blockbuster in Hungary if we can use the term for Hungarian movies. It attracted so many viewers that no Hungarian film has done before and as it’s not surprising that a Holocaust-film like this divides the audience. Thousands of readers had fallen in love with Imre Kertész’s Nobel-prize novel, and expectations in this case are very high. However this film does NOT have to make any disappointment and opposite to some critics’ opinion it holds the same meaning the novel holds. Don’t forget that Kertész is the screenwriter too, it is his true story, a man’s who went through all these and kept the respect of life so could find happiness after and during this. He agreed this film’s value. The movie has some great actors, wonderful pictures and lots of very good, atmospheric scenes with very real memorable characters. The score is extremely beautiful how it’s natural if the composer is Ennio Morricone.

‘Fateless’ is an impressive European masterpiece, Hungary should be proud of it.

Director: Lajos Koltai
Writer: Imre Kertész (novel)
Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek
Countries of origin: Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, France, United States
Languages: Hungarian, German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish
Also known as: Sorstalanság
Filming locations: Paks, Hungary.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367082/