| Fateless | |
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Hungarian-language poster |
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| Directed by | Lajos Koltai |
| Produced by | Executive Producers: Robert Buckler Bernd Hellthaler Lazlo Vincze Producers: Lajos Koltai Andras Hamori Ildiko Kemeny Jonathan Olsberg |
| Written by | Imre Kertesz |
| Starring | Marcell Nagy Aron Dimeny Andras M. Kecskes Joszef Gyabronka Endre Harkanyi |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Gyula Pados |
| Editing by | Hajnal Sello |
| Release date(s) | Hungary: February 8, 2005 United States: September 3, 2005 Canada: September 14, 2005 |
| Running time | 136 min. |
| Country | Germany Hungary United Kingdom |
| Language | Hungarian German English |
Fateless (Hungarian: Sorstalanság) is a film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It was based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertész, who wrote the screenplay. It is the story of a teenage boy who is sent to concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz.
Its music was composed by Ennio Morricone and one of its songs was sung by Lisa Gerrard. The film is one of the most expensive movie productions ever done in Hungary (it cost about US$12 million to make).
As of 2005[update], it was screened in Hungary and Germany (at Berlinale), at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado as well as the Toronto International Film Festival.
Distributed in the UK by Dogwoof Pictures, it first premiered in the UK at the Imperial War Museum.