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Fateless (2005)

Fateless (2005)
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One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Hungary when the Nazi pogroms begin sweeping through the country. Gyura's father (Janos Ban) has his business taken away from him not long before he's taken away to a concentration camp, and as he's led away, Gyura agrees to his father's request to look after his stepmother while he's gone. However, Gyurka takes a bus rather than the train to work the following morning, believing it to be safer, but before it can reach its destination, police stop the vehicle and take the Jewish passengers into custody. Gyurka is sent to Auschwitz, but is later transferred to Buchenwald, and finally to Zeitz; at each stop the teenager is witness to greater and greater horrors, as different varieties of torture and violence are introduced with each passing day, until his emotions begin to wear away. When American troops finally liberate Zeitz, Gyurka has been shocked into a placid serenity, and when he returns to the wreckage that is Budapest, his ravaged body and ghostly calm go mostly overlooked by the other survivors attempting to rebuild. Sorstalansag (aka Fateless) was adapted from a novel by Imre Kertesz, a Nobel Prize-winning author who is himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, (more)
Director(s):
Lajos Koltai
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
R
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of Fateless

One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Hungary when the Nazi pogroms begin sweeping through the country. Gyura's father (Janos Ban) has his business taken away from him not long before he's taken away to a concentration camp, and as he's led away, Gyura agrees to his father's request to look after his stepmother while he's gone. However, Gyurka takes a bus rather than the train to work the following morning, believing it to be safer, but before it can reach its destination, police stop the vehicle and take the Jewish passengers into custody. Gyurka is sent to Auschwitz, but is later transferred to Buchenwald, and finally to Zeitz; at each stop the teenager is witness to greater and greater horrors, as different varieties of torture and violence are introduced with each passing day, until his emotions begin to wear away. When American troops finally liberate Zeitz, Gyurka has been shocked into a placid serenity, and when he returns to the wreckage that is Budapest, his ravaged body and ghostly calm go mostly overlooked by the other survivors attempting to rebuild. Sorstalansag (aka Fateless) was adapted from a novel by Imre Kertesz, a Nobel Prize-winning author who is himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
140 mins

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Director(s):
Lajos Koltai
Writer(s):
Imre Kertesz
Producer(s):
Andras Hamori, Jonathan Olsberg, Ildiko Kemeny
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
R(Adult Situations, Violence)
Categories:
Independent Films
Warning:  This product is intended for mature audiences only. It may contain violence, sexual content, drug abuse and/or strong language. You must be 17 or older to purchase it. By ordering this item you are certifying that you are at least 17 years of age.

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    Mahmut Celal E.

    This is the most realistic holocaust films I have seen so far. The script is very lean yet strong enough in terms of reflecting the horrifying terror of the Nazi terror.

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    Ruby D.

    Several weeks before the movie came to DVD I read the novel by Imre Kertesz and it was an unsettling experience. Really looking forward to the film particularly because it was written by Kertesz and directed by Lajos Koltai, a superb cinematographer. In my 50 years of passion for world cinema I have never seen anything quite like this. The novel/film presents one person's unique experience of the camps and utterly unlike any other novel/film of this same event. Kertesz and Koltai mark the camp time in seconds--I don't want to spoil the effect for anyone but the scene(s) I refer to are played more than once. Imagine. Just imagine it, second by second by second. And then imagine the boy can actually speak of moments of happiness. The DVD extras are superb--interviews with Koltai and Kertesz. Koltai describes the "chapters" of the movie as "etudes" and it is the perfect description.

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    James V.

    Hands down the most beautiful holocaust story I've seen (beauty in terms of cinematography, composition, lighting, colors, set design and all the rest; but not, of course, the story), FATELESS is some kind of masterpiece. Even if you have seen too much of this subject, you will not have seen it like this. Even at 2 hours 20 minutes, it's difficult to take your eyes off the screen, so quietly stunning is each frame. If this sounds somehow wrong--sentimentalizing, glamorizing a horrendous event--the end result is nothing like that. Instead, everything works toward one of the most eye-opening, thought-provoking endings of any Holocaust film I can recall (I played the final few minutes over and over, drinking it in, trying to understand). Nothing is too unimaginable to bear. Happiness--bits of it--can be found anywhere. Surviving depends on many variables, some within our control, more without. "Fateless" is THE relevant holocaust movie, one to show your children & talk about afterwards.

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