Fateless

Plot summary

“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.

Crew

• Lajos KoltaiDirector
• personImre KertészWriter
• personPéter BarbalicsProducer
• personAndrás HámoriProducer
• Ildikó KeményProducer
• personJonathan OlsbergProducer
• personRobert BucklerExecutive producer
• personBernd HelthalerExecutive producer
• Ennio MorriconeMusic
• personDenes RedlyMusic

Cast

Production companies

• movieMagic Media
• movieRenegade Films
• movieHungarian Motion Picture
• EuroArts
• movieHungarian Television
• MDR