Fateless

Produced by:
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
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary
Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project
Recanati Foundation
Genres:
Directed by: Lajos Koltai
Overview
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.
Review (1)
Andres Gomez (Rated: 7)
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.
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