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Fateless

(Sorstalanság)

German title: Fateless – Roman eines Schicksallosen
Francaise title: Être sans destin
Spain title: Campos de Esperanza
Greek title: Ένας άνθρωπος δίχως πεπρωμένο
Russian title: Без судьбы
Original title: Sorstalanság

Alternative titles:
Sin destino – Una mirada de esperanza | Enas anthropos dihos pepromeno | Ενας ανθρωπος διχως πεπρωμενο

Drama – Hungary
Production year: 2004
Movie length: 140 minutes

Director: Lajos Koltai

Movie description:

Imre Kertész was a teenager when he survived the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. The ordeal of a fourteen-year-old boy who survived the German death camps is also the subject of this Hungarian Nobel prizewinner’s major literary work. Told from the point of view of this adolescent boy, this meticulous screen adaptation tells the story of the experiences of the Jewish population in Budapest during the Second World War: from the compulsory purchase and sewing of a yellow star of David onto their clothing, to deportation and their ordeal at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz, as well as the liberation of the camps and the return of survivors to post-war Budapest.

Boy Actors