Fateless

Release Date: 2005-02-10

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.903 / 10

Cast

Marcell Nagy

as György Köves

Béla Dóra

as Smoker

Bálint Péntek

as Pretty boy

Áron Dimény

as Bandi Citrom

Péter Fancsikai

as Older Kollmann boy

Crew

Lajos Koltai - Director
Imre Kertész - Writer
Ennio Morricone - Original Music Composer
Ildikó Kemény - Producer
Hajnal Sellő - Editor

Reviews

Andres Gomez:

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 l...