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Fateless (2005)
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.
Length 140 minutes
Actors
Marcell Nagy | Béla Dóra | Bálint Péntek | Áron Dimény | Péter Fancsikai | Zsolt Dér | András M. Kecskés | Dani Szabó | Tibor Mertz | Vida Péter | Endre Harkányi | Márton Brezina | Daniel Craig | József Gyabronka | Thuróczy Szabolcs | Máté Haumann | Ernő Fekete | Molnár Piroska | Rajhona Ádám | Károly Nemcsák | Ferenc Lengyel | Szarvas József | Gábor Máté