FATELESS
by Lajos Koltai
synopsis
Köves is a Jewish teenager who lives an ordinary life in Budapest in 1944. Shortly after his father is arrested and sent to a working camp, Köves himself is taken in a cattle train to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. Köves does not rebel against his destiny, does not show any surprise, and does not try to escape.
international title: | Fateless |
original title: | Sorstalansag |
country: | Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom |
year: | 2005 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lajos Koltai |
film run: | 140' |
release date: | HU 10/02/2005, FR 03/05/2006, UK 05/05/2006 |
screenplay: | Imre Kertész |
cast: | Marcell Nagy, Áron Dimény, Endre Harkányi, András M. Kecskés, József Gyabronka |
cinematography by: | Gyula Pados |
film editing: | Hajnal Sello |
art director: | Tibor Lázár, Zsuzsanna Borvendég |
costumes designer: | Györgyi Szakács |
music: | Ennio Morricone, Lisa Gerrard (songs) |
producer: | Péter Barbalics, Ildiko Kemeny, Jonathan Olsberg, Péter Barbalics (HU), Ildiko Kemeny (UK), Jonathan Olsberg (DE) |
production: | EuroArts Entertainment Filmproduktions, RTL Klub- Magyar Televízió, MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Magyar Mozgókép Kft, Magic Media Rt., Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma, Magyar Mozgókép Közalapítvány, Magyar Történelmi Film Alapítvány (HU), Renegade Films (UK) |
backing: | Eurimages |
distributor: | Films sans Frontières (FR), Dogwoof Pictures (UK) |