Andras M. Kecskes, Bela Dora, Bálint Péntek
After his father loses his business and is taken to a labor camp, Gyorgy Koves soon finds himself baffled and alone at Auschwitz-Birkenau, struggling to find meaning in his tragic fate. Gyorgy stoical...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006
Stats: 249 reviews
There can be beauty anywhere - even in the Nazi death camps. This film is filled with touching moments, some of the rawest I've seen in film, and is an interesting take on the coming-of-age story: what if you spent your teens in a concentration camp? How would you look back on it?
it's not every day I see a hungarian film nor have I ever heard of an Hungarian film but this film will certainly make me find more Hungarian films.
This is a film which probably would not be done in a similar way in an English peaking film. Many of the scenes where certainly ...( read more)
The cinematography's warm, the characters cold, and the territory familiar.
for disturbing images, nudity, language.
I have seen many movies about Holocaust, but this Hungarian one, Fateless is quite impress...( read more)
Unique movie about concentration camps... One of the best Holocaust movies ever made, in my opinion
typical of most movies depicting labor camps, it's a well made foreign film and shows the workings of labor camps and physiological struggle more detailed than others, as a sub-titled film it's not bad seen as the sub titles are quite easy to read and the dialog flows well.
Powerful performances from the cast, especially the young lead. Well worth watching.
This unique and devastating look at the Holocaust is drawn from the autobiographical novel of 2002 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz. full review
Lajos Koltai's film, which follows a Jewish boy from Budapest to Buchenwald, ranks among the best nondocumentary cinematic treatments of the Holocaust yet produced. full review
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