Project Detail

Fateless

Synopsis

Renowned novelist Imre Kertesz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002 for Fateless, which follows the extraordinary story of Gyorgy Koves, a Jewish boy from Budapest, who finds himself increasingly alone as the terrible events of World War II unfold around him. His father is sent off to a labour camp, and Gyorgy himself volunteers to go to a camp in Germany, convinced that his life will be safer there. At the concentration camp, Gyorgy conforms and survives, taking the realities of camp life for granted, and treating it as an everyday existence not unlike any other. Gyorgy finds that even among the cruelties of camp life, there are genuine moments of happiness.

Details

Year
2005
Type of project
Features
Running time
134 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Lajos Koltai 1st Feature
Producer
Laszlo Vincze, Bernd Hellthaler, Robert Buckler
Editor
Hajnal Sello
Screenwriter
Imre Kertesz
Director of Photography
Gyula Pados
Sound
Simon Kaye AMPS CAS
Composer
Ennio Morricone
Principal cast
Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Andras M. Kecskes, Daniel Craig

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Renegade Films Ltd

Flat 10
46 Old Compton Street
London W1D 4TZ
UK

T+44 (0)20 7434 1811

ildiko.renegade@virgin.net

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