Main Cast: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Andras M. Kecskes, Joszef Gyabronka, Endre Harkanyi
Release Year: 2005
Country: UK/HU/DE
Run Time: 136 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy living in Hungary when the Nazi pogroms begin sweeping through the country. Gyura's father (Janos Ban) has his business taken away from him not long before he's taken away to a concentration camp, and as he's led away, Gyura agrees to his father's request to look after his stepmother while he's gone. However, Gyurka takes a bus rather than the train to work the following morning, believing it to be safer, but before it can reach its destination, police stop the vehicle and take the Jewish passengers into custody. Gyurka is sent to Auschwitz, but is later transferred to Buchenwald, and finally to Zeitz; at each stop the teenager is witness to greater and greater horrors, as different varieties of torture and violence are introduced with each passing day, until his emotions begin to wear away. When American troops finally liberate Zeitz, Gyurka has been shocked into a placid serenity, and when he returns to the wreckage that is Budapest, his ravaged body and ghostly calm go mostly overlooked by the other survivors attempting to rebuild. Sorstalansag (aka Fateless) was adapted from a novel by Imre Kertesz, a Nobel Prize-winning author who is himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Cast
Marcell Nagy - Gyura Koves
Aron Dimeny - Bandi Citrom
Andras M. Kecskes - Finn
Joszef Gyabronka - Balszerencses
Endre Harkanyi - Kollmann
Daniel Craig - American Soldier; Janos Ban - Gyorgy's Father; Bela Dora; Balint Pentek; Dani Szabo; Zsolt Der; Judit Schell - Gyorgy's Stepmother; Adam Rajhona; Gyorgy Barko
Credit
Andras Benyo - Associate Producer, Jonathan Haren - Associate Producer, Michael Reuter - Associate Producer, Endre Sik - Associate Producer, Karoly Varga - Associate Producer, Miriam Zachar - Associate Producer, Gyorgy Szakacs - Costume Designer, Tibor Lazar - First Assistant Director, Lajos Koltai - Director, Hajnal Sello - Editor, Robert Buckler - Executive Producer, Bernd Hellthaler - Executive Producer, Lazlo Vincze - Executive Producer, Ennio Morricone - Composer (Music Score), Tibor Lazar - Production Designer, Gyula Pados - Cinematographer, Andras Hamori - Producer, Peter Barbalics - Producer, Jonathan Olsberg - Producer, Ildiko Kemeny - Producer, Simon Kaye - Sound/Sound Designer, Imre Kertesz - Screenwriter, Imre Kertesz - Book Author
Fateless (Hungarian: Sorstalanság) is a film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same title by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, who wrote the screenplay. It is the story of a teenage boy who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Zeitz.
Its music was composed by Ennio Morricone and one of its songs was sung by Lisa Gerrard. The film is not only one of the most expensive movie productions ever done in Hungary (it cost about US$12 million to make) but also one of the most successful productions.
