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"Fiercely unsentimental and surprisingly beautiful,
Hungarian drama Fateless does the seemingly impossible:
it succeeds in portraying the subject of the Holocaust in
a new and devastating light.
Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész,
it's the story of a 14-year old Hungarian Jew György
Köves, whose unremarkable arrest on a bus in Budapest
leads to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and near death in a smaller
German labour camp. It's a handsome and large-scale production
but don't go expecting another Schindler's List. Lajos Koltai's
film is far more ambiguous, disturbing and, ultimately,
upliting ... The film's unusually honest tone is established
early on ... The acting, especially from young Marcell Nagy,
is also superb." BBCi
GOLDEN BEAR nominee, Berlin 2005
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