• Title:
• Fateless

• Director:
• Lajos Koltai

• Hungarian and German with English subtitles

• Hungary/Germany, 140 min

• Venue:
• Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

• Purchase Tickets:
• Show 1 is Sold Out.

Based on 2002 Nobel Prize-winner Imre Kertesz’ moving novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy’s (Marcell Nagy) experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. Kertesz wrote the screenplay himself, and in the process of adapting his novel, expanded it to include more of his personal experiences.  Director Lajos Koltai, best known as Istvan Szabo’s (Being Julia) long-time cinematographer, has created a film whose harrowing narrative is punctuated by moments of surprising beauty. Cinematically, Fateless distinguishes itself from other Holocaust films by its disinterest in the shock-value of life in the concentration camps.  Instead, it focuses more on the internal struggle to fight for the soul’s survival in the midst of horrific circumstances where physical survival seems to depend on chance.

Sponsored by the United Jewish Endowment Fund 
Co-sponsored by the Embassy of Hungary and the Goethe-Institut Washington
Welcoming Remarks: His Excellency, András Simonyi, Ambassador of Hungary

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• Show 1 is Sold Out.

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