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      Fateless

      R Released Jan 6, 2006 2 hr. 16 min. History Drama List
      95% 64 Reviews Tomatometer 83% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score In 1944, 14-year-old Hungarian Jew Gyorgy Koves (Marcell Nagy) quits school to look after his family when his father (János Bán) is deported by the Nazis to a labor camp. Shortly afterward, Gyorgy is seized during a police raid and sent to Auschwitz. Lying about his age to prevent himself from being gassed with the other children, Gyorgy learns from veteran prisoner Bandi Citrom (Áron Dimény) how to survive as he is sent from one concentration camp to another. Read More Read Less
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      Beautifully photographed and majestically scored, Fateless is a haunting account of one boy's experiences during the Holocaust and his journey to pick up the pieces in the war's aftermath.

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      Audience Member Easily the best film about victims of the Holocaust. Makes Schindlers List look like a soap opera. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member While I definitely think the subject matter is important and it's not a badly made film, it just wasn't for me. Or maybe it was just my mood the day I tried to watch it- but either way, I couldn't put myself through it. The acting is good, and it's not that it isn't interesting- I just couldn't put myself through it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting movie about the personal experience of a Hungarian Jew during the Holocaust. Still, you cannot really empathize with the weird apathetic personality of the main character until the last reflections of the movie. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Rising Above Personal Horror, learning the Meaning of Life in a Concentration Camp--Hauntingly beautiful!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a great movie based on the autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize winning novelist Imre Kertész. It tells the story of a teenage Hungarian Jewish boy sent to the Nazi death camps near thye end of the war. The horrors of the camps, and of the Nazi's antisemitism in general, are well represented but not the major concern of the film. It is much more about survival -- bodily and spiritually -- amid the banality of evil in the camps. The viewer hopefully will agree with the boy in the end that life is worth living and that more important than the horrors is the reality that some happiness could be found even in the midst of the evil of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member the film name is fateless, but the film has a fate Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Ty Burr Boston Globe Fateless looks man's inhumanity to man square in the eye and pronounces it standard operating procedure, and that may be the greater horror. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 2, 2006 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Is the survivor entitled to ordinary human happiness -- or is this human emotion an act of disloyalty and diminution? These questions are a vital part of this outstanding film's dark and sombre power. Rated: 4/5 May 6, 2006 Full Review Robert Hanks Independent (UK) Perhaps the fault lies more with Ennio Morricone's lavish, emotionally bullying music, which cancels out all the reticence and nuance of the script. Rated: 3/5 May 6, 2006 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens This is really the first holocaust film that doesn't just say it was an atrocity; it gives a new psychological perspective that shows a sense of hope and possibly even joy hidden in the horrors. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Eve Tushnet Patheos It conveys a feeling of exhaustion. Mist drifts through the camp, lending a beauty which does not point to any meaning or goodness, a kind of drained beauty. Feb 8, 2019 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com "Fateless" is an essential film in the canon of holocaust film because it vividly tracks the specific brand of hatred that torture and genocidal murder inures. Rated: A Apr 20, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis In 1944, 14-year-old Hungarian Jew Gyorgy Koves (Marcell Nagy) quits school to look after his family when his father (János Bán) is deported by the Nazis to a labor camp. Shortly afterward, Gyorgy is seized during a police raid and sent to Auschwitz. Lying about his age to prevent himself from being gassed with the other children, Gyorgy learns from veteran prisoner Bandi Citrom (Áron Dimény) how to survive as he is sent from one concentration camp to another.
      Director
      Lajos Koltai
      Executive Producer
      Laszlo Vincze, Bernd Helthaler, Robert Buckler
      Screenwriter
      Imre Kertész
      Distributor
      ThinkFilm
      Production Co
      Magic Média, Renegade, Euroarts
      Rating
      R (Nudity|Disturbing Holocaust Images|Brief Strong Language)
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 6, 2006, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 2, 2019
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $195.9K
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital