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Fateless is a hongrois film of genre Drama directed by Lajos Koltai with Daniel Craig

Fateless (2005)

Fateless
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Length 2h14
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OriginHongrie
Genres Drama,    War
Rating69% 3.4983253.4983253.4983253.4983253.498325

Fateless (Hungarian: Sorstalanság) is a Hungarian film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, who also wrote the screenplay. It tells the story of a teenage boy who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz.

The film's music was composed by Ennio Morricone, and one of its songs was sung by Lisa Gerrard. The film is one of the most expensive movies ever produced in Hungary, with a cost of $12 million.

The film also features British actor Daniel Craig, who plays a cameo as an American Army Sergeant.

The film was screened in Hungary and Germany (at Berlinale), at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado as well as the Toronto International Film Festival.

Synopsis

Un jeune garçon fait l'expérience de la guerre dans ses aspects les plus tragiques (port de l'étoile jaune, rafles, déportation, travaux forcés, dégradations en tout genres, etc.), et dans le même temps, il fait l'apprentissage de la vie et passe de l'enfance au monde adulte (coming of age).

Actors

Daniel Craig

(US sergeant)
Piroska Molnár

(Terka)
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