Fateless

  • “Superbly acted and very startling in the way it questions the well-intentioned pieties and cliches that we mouth about the Holocaust in order to manage its unending horror.”

    Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  • “Among the best nondocumentary cinematic treatments of the Holocaust yet produced -- dry as well as devastating and illuminated by surprising flashes of absurdist humor that carry the authority of lived experience.”

    A.O. Scott. The New York Times

  • “Magnificent... an impressive memorial”

    Jewish Chronicle

  • “Fateless is remarkable, vivid, shattering.”

    Philip French, The Observer

Credits

Starring Marcell Nagy (as Gyuri), Guest-starring Daniel Craig (as his US Army sergeant liberator)
Director Lajos Koltai
Screenplay Imre Kertesz
Music Ennio Morricone
Co-Producer Ildiko Kemeny
Executive Producer Robert Buckler

A Hungarian-UK-German-Israeli coproduction.

Inspired by the autobiographical novel by Nobel Literature Prize Laureate, Imre Kertesz, and directed by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lajos Koltai, ‘Fateless’ tells the story of young Hungarian Jewish boy Gyuri, swept up by the fascists in the dying days of World War II, transported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald and his return to post-war Budapest.

  • Official Competition Berlin Film Festival, Nominee for the Golden Bear, Lajos Koltai

  • Winner of Camerimage Golden Frog, Gyula Pados

  • Nominee European Film Awards Best Cinematographer, Gyula Pados

  • Nominee Best Original Score for a Drama Film, International Film Music Critics Award, Ennio Morricone

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