Fateless

Feb 10, 2005

2h 20m

★ 6.9

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

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.

Genres

War

Drama

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

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Cast

György Köves

Marcell Nagy

Smoker

Béla Dóra

Pretty boy

Bálint Péntek

Bandi Citrom

Áron Dimény

Older Kollmann boy

Péter Fancsikai

Rozi

Zsolt Dér

Finn

András M. Kecskés

Moskovich

Dani Szabó

Fodor

Tibor Mertz

Lénárt

Péter Vida

Old Kollmann

Endre Harkányi

Younger Kollmann boy

Márton Brezina

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