Fateless

You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget.

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Cast

Marcell Nagy

György Köves

Béla Dóra

Smoker

Bálint Péntek

Pretty boy

Áron Dimény

Bandi Citrom

Péter Fancsikai

Older Kollmann boy

Zsolt Dér

Rozi

András M. Kecskés

Finn

Dani Szabó

Moskovich

Tibor Mertz

Fodor

Péter Vida

Lénárt

Endre Harkányi

Old Kollmann

Márton Brezina

Younger Kollmann boy