Fateless (2005)
Country: HUN/GER/GB/ISR
Technical: col/scope 139m
Director: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimény, András M. Kecskés, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
A Hungarian Jewish boy is shipped, by an unfortunate chain of circumstance, to the death camps in 1944 and manages to survive both Auschwitz and Dachau before ending up in a smaller work camp, becoming crippled with septicaemia and surviving as far as the liberation. Upon his return to Budapest he finds it difficult to assess his experience as anything more horrible than what might have been expected and looks back on it with ambivalent feelings.
Review:
A close up and personal account of the holocaust, told with matter-of-fact detail and no mean visual beauty. It is a risky strategy, this reluctance to go all out for the horror, and it is its extreme - holocaust denial - to which the film alludes in a scene where, having been questioned by a man on his return as to whether he had actually seen the death machinery at work, the boy replies that he had not. An extremely impressive first feature by the director.
Country: HUN/GER/GB/ISR
Technical: col/scope 139m
Director: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimény, András M. Kecskés, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
A Hungarian Jewish boy is shipped, by an unfortunate chain of circumstance, to the death camps in 1944 and manages to survive both Auschwitz and Dachau before ending up in a smaller work camp, becoming crippled with septicaemia and surviving as far as the liberation. Upon his return to Budapest he finds it difficult to assess his experience as anything more horrible than what might have been expected and looks back on it with ambivalent feelings.
Review:
A close up and personal account of the holocaust, told with matter-of-fact detail and no mean visual beauty. It is a risky strategy, this reluctance to go all out for the horror, and it is its extreme - holocaust denial - to which the film alludes in a scene where, having been questioned by a man on his return as to whether he had actually seen the death machinery at work, the boy replies that he had not. An extremely impressive first feature by the director.
Country: HUN/GER/GB/ISR
Technical: col/scope 139m
Director: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimény, András M. Kecskés, Daniel Craig
Synopsis:
A Hungarian Jewish boy is shipped, by an unfortunate chain of circumstance, to the death camps in 1944 and manages to survive both Auschwitz and Dachau before ending up in a smaller work camp, becoming crippled with septicaemia and surviving as far as the liberation. Upon his return to Budapest he finds it difficult to assess his experience as anything more horrible than what might have been expected and looks back on it with ambivalent feelings.
Review:
A close up and personal account of the holocaust, told with matter-of-fact detail and no mean visual beauty. It is a risky strategy, this reluctance to go all out for the horror, and it is its extreme - holocaust denial - to which the film alludes in a scene where, having been questioned by a man on his return as to whether he had actually seen the death machinery at work, the boy replies that he had not. An extremely impressive first feature by the director.