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Fateless (Sorstalanság)
"The boy's subsequent ordeal is depicted in a series of quietly paced, nearly surreal vignettes, often with a minimum of dialogue. Despite the lack of narrative drive during its considerable 140-minute running time, the film attains a significant cumulative power, due both to the horrors being depicted and the hallucinatory and even elegant visual style in which they are rendered" [Hollywood Reporter].
Starring Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény, Péter Fancsikai, Zsolt Dér
Directed by Lajos Koltai (directorial debut, cinematography: Being Julia, Mal?na, Out To Sea)
Written by Imre Kert
Festivals & Awards Nominated for the Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival | Won Best Cinematography at Copenhagen International Film Festival
Drama | 2hr 27mins | Rated (M) | Origin: Hungary, Germany, UK | Language: Hungarian / English / German with English subtitles | Official Site »
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Empire Magazine [UK]
3
Holocaust drama shot like costume drama, creating a sense of aesthetic disharmony.
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Hollywood Reporter
Fateless is both haunting and poetic. It also is visually stunning...
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Rolling Stone [USA]
3
This unique and devastating look at the Holocaust is drawn from the autobiographical novel of 2002 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz...
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Salon [USA]
One of the greatest of all Holocaust films...
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The New York Times
It represents something stranger and, to those of us with only a secondhand or thirdhand knowledge of that history, more disturbing: a survivor's conviction that there were aspects of the experience itself that can only be described as beautiful...
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Variety [USA]
Exquisitely modulated and superbly mounted, the directing debut of skilled cinematographer Lajos Koltai went through an extended, unpredictable production history to emerge as a genuinely new way of looking at the Holocaust that is markedly different in tone from other such stories including "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist"...
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