Synopsis
From Hungarian Nobel Prize in Literature Imre Kertész’s autobiography, the film revolves around a 15 year old boy who during WWII is sent to a concentration camp. At the same time the film depicts the Jewish people’s lives in Budapest from the promulgation of the first racial laws - with the imposition of the yellow star on clothes - to the deportation to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeltz and their final liberation and return to Budapest.
| Original Title | SORDTALANSÁG |
| Italian Title | SENZA DESTINO |
| Category | Out of competition |
| Section | Reload |
| Tipology | Feature Film |
| Duration | 134' |
| Production Year | 2005 |
| Nationality | Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom |
| Directed by | Lajos Koltai |
| Screenplay | Imre Kertész |
| Based on the book | "Fatelessness" ("Sorstalanság") |
| by | Imre Kertész |
| Director of photography | Gyula Pados |
| Editor | Hajnal Sellö |
| Production Design | Tibor Lázár |
| Costume Design | Györgyi Szakács |
| Sound | Simon Kaye |
| Music | Ennio Morricone |
| Main cast |
Marcell Nagy (Gyuri Köves) Béla Dóra (fumatore/smoker) Bálint Péntek (bel ragazzo/pretty boy) Áron Dimény (Bandi Citrom) Péter Fancsikai (Kollmann) Zsolt Dér (Rozi) |
| Produced by | Andras Hamori, Péter Barbalics, Ildiko Kemeny |
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Lajos Koltai
Born in 1946 in Budapest. Since 1970 he has worked as a director of photography and collaborated with the Hungarian director István Szabó on both Domestic and International productions since 1980. Koltai has also worked in Hollywood. FATELESS (2004) is his first feature film as a director.
Director’s statement
“In my opinion it was still fundamental to be very precise in every scene. Now there are just few still living survivors from the Holocaust and we don’t want to give families a wrong impression of the story their beloved were forced to live. When I didn’t have enough information for a scene or a character, I preferred to take it out”.
Production
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World sales
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Italian distribution
Festival contact
Medusa
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