Fateless
“You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget.”
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.
Details
Release Date: 2/10/2005
Runtime: 140 minutes
Languages: English, Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Polish, Hungarian
Director: Lajos Koltai
Budget: $0.3M
Revenue: $2.5M
Production
Companies: Hungarian Motion Picture Ltd., Magic Media, EuroArts, Renegade Films, Hungarian Television, MDR, Cinema Soleil, Eurimages, Hungarian Historic Foundation, Ingenious Media, The Israel Film Council, 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
Countries: France, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom, United States of America, Hungary
Where to watch · US
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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 last reflections of the movie.
