Holocaust film based on the memoir of Nobel Prize winning novelist Imre Kertesz. The story follows Gyuri, a teenage hungarian...
Holocaust film based on the memoir of Nobel Prize winning novelist Imre Kertesz. The story follows Gyuri, a teenage hungarian Jew whose arrest in 1944 on a bus leads to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and near death in a smaller German labour camp. After the war, Gyuri attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences.
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95 %64 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
83 %14,056 reviewsAudience score rating
"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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Variety
Variety"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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The New York Times
The New York Times"One of the greatest of all Holocaust films..."
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Salon
Salon"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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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"Fateless is both haunting and poetic. It also is visually stunning..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Holocaust drama shot like costume drama, creating a sense of aesthetic disharmony."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineFateless | Details
- Rating
- M,
- Runtime
- 147
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Hungary, Germany, UK
