Fateless
Sorstalanság
2005, Film, 140 min, Drama, Romance, War, Hungarian, Hungary, MoviePedia score 68
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.
Directed by Lajos Koltai
Cast
- Marcell Nagy as Köves Gyuri
- Béla Dóra as Dohányos
- Bálint Péntek as Selyemfiú
- Áron Dimény as Citrom Bandi
- Péter Fancsikai as kis Kollmann
- Zsolt Dér as Rozi
- András M. Kecskés as Finn
- Dániel Szabó as Moskovics
- Tibor Mertz as Fodor
- Péter Vida as Lénárt
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