Acclaimed Hungarian cinematographer Lajos Koltai's directorial debut is an uncompromisingly explicit and emotionally wrenching adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Imre Kertesz's Holocaust novel
Fatelessness. Nazi-occupied Budapest, 1944. As his father (Janos Ban) prepares for forced relocation to a German labor camp, 14-year-old Gyuri Koves (Marcell Nagy) is pulled aside by an elderly uncle (Peter Haumann) and given a warning: With his father's departure, Gyuri's days of childhood innocence will have come to an end, and he must now share the fate God has seen fit to mete out to all Jews, one which they must accept with humility and forbearance as they awa...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
140 mins