DVD : Fateless
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575546652
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 12618
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Don’t miss this unforgettable story of a child who had the courage to come home.
Set in 1944, as Hitler’s Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe, Fateless is the semi-autobiographical tale of a 14 year-old Jewish boy from Budapest, who finds himself swept up by cataclysmic events beyond his comprehension. A perfectly normal metropolitan teen who has never felt particularly connected to his religion, he is suddenly separated from his family as part of the rushed and random deportation of his city’s large Jewish population. Brought to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity and adaptation, and he is never quite sure if he is the victim of his captors, or of an absurd destiny that metes out salvation and suffering arbitrarily. When he returns home after the liberation, he missed the sense of community he experienced in the camps, feeling alienated from both his Christian neighbors who turned a blind eye to his fate, and the Jewish family friends who avoided deportation and who now want to put the war behind them.
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If you are looking for movies with explicit content abouth the WWII or the Holocaust this in not your movie. However it is quite and interesting story in wich you can see different point of views about this war and what was happening in the end.
A nice movie to have in any collection. Whit a very interesting ending "monolog" from the main character...
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I would like to spend a few lines comparing Fateless to Schindler's List, but not until I describe Fateless first. Fateless is a movie based on Imre Kertesz best-selling novel "Fatelessness" about his own experiences during the Holocaust in Hungary. The film begins with our protagnist witnessing his father being called up to a "labor camp." Later, on his way to work, he himself is grabbed by the SS and transported via rail to Auschwitz, the most evil of all the extermination camps.
On his way, the protagonist encounters evil in many forms. The SS that beat and degrade him and the rest of the Jews without regard for their humanity. Later, in the concentration camps we notice the main characters demise and lost of interest in life. Many of his fellow inmates struggle to get him to care about life and to have hope, but he is just merely to exhausted and disgusted with life to care at this point.
At his most vulnerable point and on the cust of death, liberation comes and the protagonist is saved from a certain death. He then return to Hungary to witness that many people have continued life as if nothing happened. To make matters worse, many of his fellow-countrymen and even his fellow Jews are indifferent to his suffering at best and disgusted by him at worst. We notice that the protagonist is changed. He has no hope. He talks about his experiences and describes them as normal. Not normal in the real world, but normal is his mind.
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A riveting, beautifully filmed and scored-musically (by Ennio Morricone), Hungarian movie about survival and death in German concentration camps during World War II. It is from a novel and screenplay by Imre Kertész, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history."
It depicts in part how some Jews--for example, "Capos"--abused their fellow Jews; and it follows one young boy (played by Marcell Nagy) from Budapest to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz (where Kertész was a prisoner), and his return to Budapest at the end of the war. There he is subjected to further travesties and indignities--Man's inhumanity to his fellow man, as Rabbi Harold S. Kushner has written.
While I have watched many films about the Nazi Holocaust (and visited Dachau outside of Munich), this one may be the most powerful. It is brilliant; and the director, Lajos Koltai, deserves enormous praise. Obviously the Jews were persecuted; and human beings are wronged today in America and other countries of the world, where at the very least attempts are made to break the human spirit. Those who were persecuted learn to persecute others, and often they do not think twice about doing it. No guilt, nothing. The film also depicts great kindness, compassion, generosity and love shown by some inmates to their fellow prisoners.
"Everyone needs some life-giving obsession. ... Read More
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Fateless is based on the autobiography of Imre Kertesz, who was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps. Kertesz wrote the book in 1975 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
Bringing this to the screen was a huge undertaking, and it shows. Re-creation of the buildings of several camps was so real. Through the eyes of the cinematographer, enormous wide angle shots were used. Numerous shots of the massive operation were magnificent. One got a sense of an entire scope of several buildings in various camps. You could feel just how cold, wet, inhumane and dark this monumental tragedy was.
The musical composition was perfect and moving. In an interview with composer, Ennio Morricone, he said he did the music in three types. One, was folksy child, and we can only relay that to the youth of the boy imprisioned. The other type depicted loneliness, and the third type of music translated the human suffering. The musical score was beautiful!! You can't help notice it and how it set the mood.
In 1944, a Budapest teen, Gyuri Koves' father is preparing for a forced labor camp. Soon, Gyuri is taken for a bus and sent to three different concentration camps.
This film is more graphic than some Halocaust films, and it is in the voice of a young boy, the eyes of a young boy and the inhumane suffering endured by a young boy. He became gaunt, had blistered hands, starving, had an infected knee with maggots, and saw death ... Read More
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Lajos Koltai's "Fateless" deserves far more fame in the United States than it has achieved. "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" have the reputations here, but "Fateless" goes far deeper than any fictional film I have ever seen in giving the audience the total, painful reality of what it must have been like to be a Holocaust victim. Gyurka (Marcell Nagy, a movingly natural young actor) is a 14-year-old Jewish boy in Budapest in 1944. One day, headed for work--his father has already been sent to a labor camp, so school is no longer an option--he is rounded up in a random sweep of the city's Jews and bundled off to a series of concentration camps. In the camps, he is beaten, humiliated and starved nearly to death, for no other reason than that he happened to be on the wrong bus at the wrong time. Liberated after a year of unimaginable suffering, he goes back home to neighbors who find his presence an unwelcome reminder of the recent unpleasantness. The story in "Fateless" is not what matters, but the sheer randomness of events in the camps, as Gyurka finds himself moved about like a pawn on a chessboard, among an ever-changing sea of faces. Suffering is the only constant, and Koltai--working from the brilliant screenplay by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz--gives us Gyurka's physical and mental anguish in bas-relief. Koltai films the story as a series of sharp vignettes, each ending in a fadeout as soon as it has made its point. "Fateless" is rigorous and austere in ... Read More
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starring: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény, Péter Fancsikai
directed by: Lajos Koltai
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575546652
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 140 minutes
Sales Rank: 12618
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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