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Fateless Reviews

2005

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After his father loses his business and is taken to a labor camp, Gyorgy Koves soon finds himself baffled and alone at Auschwitz-Birkenau, struggling to find meaning in his tragic fate. Gyorgy stoically suffers the slings and arrows of concentration camp life. Amid the deprivation and brutality, he takes solace in the kindness .. Read more

Starring	Marcell Nagy, Daniel Craig, Bela Dora, Aron Dimeny
Director	Lajos Koltai
Genres	Drama

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- Nobel Prize winner Imre KertÃszâs screen adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novel is a major addition to the... read more on Time Out
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- - Trevor Johnston
  - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:19
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  - 2
  Good film
  
  Whether or not you enjoy this film will possibly depend on how much the subject matter appeals to you. It's pretty much just a dark tale of a young man'... read more »
  
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  - drummerh
  - Greater Manchester
  - 29 Aug 2006 at 20:40
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- - 0
  - 0
  hidden gem, must see movie
  
  Though this film was just as good if not better than any movie I seen on this subject, including schinders list. The young actor playing the lead was simply ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 09 Feb 2012 at 20:06
- - 0
  - 0
  Well worth watching.
  
  I was very moved by this film. Brilliant acting from the young male lead.
  
  It was beautifully filmed and yet captured the misery and reality of the ... read more »
  
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- 1024139
- - a customer
  - 01 Aug 2011 at 19:45
- - 0
  - 0
  Very well made
  
  I enjoyed this film, if you can call it that. It is well made and very absorbing. It is quite graphic in some scenes and appears to be very realistic when it ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 23 May 2011 at 19:04
- - 0
  - 0
  Fateless - harrowing but wonderful
  
  This film brings to life what it must have been like for Jews in Europe during the 2nd World War. The film centres around a 14 year old boy, sent to a ... read more »
  
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  - Dukinfield
  - 04 Jan 2011 at 11:48
- - 0
  - 0
  Slow and uninspired.
  
  Like so many films of this genre, there is too much emphasis on tugging the heart strings. As a film, I found it too slow with very little charactor ... read more »
  
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- 902006
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  - OXON
  - 29 Jun 2010 at 09:52
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  4
  
  Quite a long film but looked amazing from a arts perspective.
  
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  - England
  - 09 Feb 2010 at 14:46
- - 0
  - 0
  remarkable story
  
  very well made foreign film that is well written and played very well through out.
  
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- - stuaet
  - 114 reviews
  - Stockport
  - 26 Aug 2009 at 23:44
- - 1
  - 0
  Empire of the Sun
  
  This is a sort of Empire of the Sun in Europe. A small boy lives life in the camps and survives a damaged person.
  
  Overly long to be honest, but ... read more »
  
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- 774923
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  - Midlands
  - 23 Jun 2009 at 14:04
- - 0
  - 0
  Excellent Film
  
  Up there with 'Schindler's List' as a film about the holocaust. Quieter, less 'flashy' than Schindler's List; but just as profound and ... read more »
  
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  - Peterborough
  - 09 Apr 2009 at 23:44
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  A devastating film
  
  Superbly acted - the main character's horrific experiences in the death camps made all the more poignant by the fact that he does not fully understand ... read more »
  
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- - Skatebuster
  - 17 reviews
  - London
  - 16 Feb 2009 at 18:06
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- - 14
  - 2
  Good film
  
  Whether or not you enjoy this film will possibly depend on how much the subject matter appeals to you. It's pretty much just a dark tale of a young man'... read more »
  
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  - drummerh
  - Greater Manchester
  - 29 Aug 2006 at 20:40
- - 7
  - 0
  A Different Take on the Holocaust
  
  Based on an autobiographical novel of the Hungarian Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz, this film is a moving account of the Holocaust seen through the eyes of a 14-... read more »
  
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- 280776
- - a customer
  - England
  - 30 Aug 2006 at 17:53
- - 6
  - 0
  Life isn't beautiful
  
  If you think you've seen every possible view of the Holocaust, and you haven't seen this film, then you're wrong.
  
  Thanks to a stunning ... read more »
  
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- - barbi
  - 150 reviews
  - Salisbury
  - 29 Sep 2006 at 20:00
- - 4
  - 0
  Excellent
  
  Brilliant cinematography and great acting. Almost beautiful if that can be said of this subject matter. Story told through the eyes and emotions of a 14 year ... read more »
  
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- 282162
- - a customer
  - Hertfordshire, UK
  - 04 Sep 2006 at 09:52
- - 4
  - 1
  Makes Schindlers list look like a Soap Opera
  
  This moving story of a young Jewsih man from Hungary trying to make sense as the world turns itself upside down. His wisdom and sense of perspective and friends... read more »
  
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- - tlahwright
  - 5 reviews
  - Carlisle
  - 14 Sep 2006 at 17:31
- - 2
  - 0
  One of the rare films to deserve the word brilliant...
  
  This is the only film I've ever seen that makes art -- as opposed to melodrama -- out of the surreal horror of the Holocaust. Magnificently acted, ... read more »
  
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- - Evelyn Toynton
  - Norwich
  - 10 Jan 2008 at 20:10
- - 1
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  excellent film
  
  Really enjoyed this film, acting excellent, length of film just right.
  
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  - north wales
  - 12 Sep 2006 at 17:16
- - 1
  - 0
  Empire of the Sun
  
  This is a sort of Empire of the Sun in Europe. A small boy lives life in the camps and survives a damaged person.
  
  Overly long to be honest, but ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 774923
- - a customer
  - Midlands
  - 23 Jun 2009 at 14:04
- - 0
  - 0
  Shindlers List it is not!
  
  A rather moving story as you would expect given the subject matter, not an action movie, but a thoughtful story of what it was like to be 14 and Jewish at that ... read more »
  
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- 279196
- - a customer
  - Ross-on-Wye, England
  - 25 Aug 2006 at 11:09
- - 0
  - 0
  Another holocaust film?
  
  Sometimes I get a feeling of deja vu and although this is certainly a good and important film I personally felt that there was little in there that I haven'... read more »
  
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- - ThomasKus
  - 143 reviews
  - Gloucester
  - 26 Oct 2006 at 23:36

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  After his father loses his business and is taken to a labor camp, Gyorgy Koves soon finds himself baffled and alone at Auschwitz-Birkenau, struggling to find meaning in his tragic fate. Gyorgy stoically suffers the slings and arrows of concentration camp life. Amid the deprivation and brutality, he ...