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Marcell Nagy
Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Marcell Nagy
Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Marcell Nagy
Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Marcell Nagy
Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
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Lájos Koltai
Fateless by Lájos Koltai
HUN/DEU/GBR 2004, Competition
Imre Kertész was a teenager when he survived the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. The ordeal of a fifteen-year-old boy who survived the German death camps is also the subject of this Hungarian Nobel prizewinners major literary work. Told from the point of view of this adolescent boy, this meticulous screen adaptation tells the story of the experiences of the Jewish population in Budapest during the Second World War: from the compulsory purchase and sewing of a yellow star of David onto their clothing, to deportation and their ordeal at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz, as well as the liberation of the camps and the return of survivors to post-war Budapest.
In this way, as the films producer comments, the film adopts a completely different perspective to the one so familiar to us from many other films made about the Holocaust. Instead of looking at things from the outside in a way that has characterised our perception of the Holocaust for the past forty years, it shows events from the point of view of those directly affected by it.
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Novel and film script author Imre Kertész, actor Marcel Nagy and director Lajos Koltai of Competition entry Fateless at the Photo Call before the film's press conference.
Fateless · Competition · Feb 15, 2005
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Kertész, Nagy, Koltai
On the podium at the press conference of Fateless: Imre Kertész, Marcell Nagy and Lajos Koltai.
Fateless · Competition · Programme Press Conference · Feb 15, 2005
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Imre Kertész
Winner of the Noble Prize for Literature and author of the novel and the film script for Fateless: Hungarian novelist Imre Kertész.
Fateless · Competition · Feb 15, 2005
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He receives a lot of attention in Berlin: Imre Kertész being welcomed by Dieter Kosslick in Berlinale Palast..
Fateless · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 15, 2005
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Fateless
Producers, driector, actors and guests of Competition entry Fateless on the Red Carpet before the premiere in Berlinale Palast.
Fateless · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 15, 2005
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Marcell Nagy
Fateless · Competition · Feb 15, 2005
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Lájos Koltai
Fateless · Competition · Feb 15, 2005
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
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Imre Kertész
Fateless · Competition · Feb 15, 2005
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Robert Buckler (Producer), Ildiko Kemeny (Producer), Jonathan Olsberg (Producer), Andras Hamori (Producer), Bernd Hellthaler (Executive Producer), Imre Kertész (Script), Marcell Nagy (Actor), Lajos Koltai (Director)
Fateless
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 15, 2005
Robert Buckler (Producer), Ildiko Kemeny (Producer), Jonathan Olsberg (Producer), Andras Hamori (Producer), Bernd Hellthaler (Executive Producer), Imre Kertész (Script), Marcell Nagy (Actor), Lajos Koltai (Director)
Fateless
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 15, 2005