Fateless
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Fateless

"You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget."

2005 2h 20m ★ 6.9 (89 votes) Released

A 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.

Director

Lajos Koltai

Writer

Kertész Imre

Screenplay

Kertész Imre

Rating
6.9
Runtime
140 min
Budget
$0.3M
Revenue
$2.5M
Profit/Loss
+2.3M

Production

Hungarian Motion Picture Ltd.
Magic Media
EuroArts EuroArts
Renegade Films
Hungarian Television
MDR MDR
Cinema Soleil
Eurimages Eurimages
Hungarian Historic Foundation
Ingenious Media Ingenious Media
The Israel Film Council The Israel Film Council
MFG Filmförderung MFG Filmförderung
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary
Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project
Recanati Foundation
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego

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Audience Reviews

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Andres Gomez
★ 7/10 Oct 12, 2013

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.

Keywords

budapest, hungaryconcentration campworld war iihungary

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