Fateless ( Sorstalanság )

Fateless (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sorstalanság
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
135 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Music Video

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lajos Koltai

Written By:
Lajos Koltai
Imre Kertész

Actors:
Marcell Nagy ..... Gyuri Köves
Béla Dóra ..... Smoker
Bálint Péntek ..... Pretty boy
Áron Dimény ..... Bandi Citrom
Péter Fancsikai ..... Older Kollmann boy
Zsolt Dér ..... Rozi
András M. Kecskés ..... Finn
Dani Szabó ..... Moskovich
Tibor Mertz ..... Fodor
Péter Vida ..... Lénárt
Endre Harkányi ..... Old Kollmann
Márton Brezina ..... Younger Kollmann boy
Zoltán Bukovszki ..... Zoli
Gábor Nyiri ..... Hedge
Jenö Nagy ..... Jenö

Synopsis:

The visual beauty of Lajos Koltai's "Fateless" is unmistakable, and also a bit disconcerting. This is, after all, a movie about the Holocaust, which follows a 14-year-old Jewish boy from Budapest to Buchenwald, where it lingers in mud, misery and death. The film was written by Imre Kertesz, who based the screenplay on his autobiographical novel of the same title. His rendering of his childhood experience, on the page and now on screen, is by no means an attempt to aestheticize an unredeemable chapter of history. It represents something stranger and more disturbing: a survivor's conviction that there were aspects of the experience itself that can only be described as beautiful. "Fateless" bears no resemblance to Roberto Begnigni's "Life Is Beautiful," which turned a death camp into a theater of sentimental kitsch. It has more in common with "The Pianist," Roman Polanski's adaptation of Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of survival in the Warsaw Ghetto under Nazi occupation. The two films, indeed, rank among the best nondocumentary cinematic treatments of the Holocaust yet produced - dry as well as devastating, and illuminated by surprising flashes of absurdist humor that carry the authority of lived experience.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 24 September, 2006.

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