Fateless (film)

{{Short description|2005 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Fateless

| image = Fatelesshungarian.jpg

| caption = Hungarian-language poster

| director = Lajos Koltai

| producer = Lajos Koltai
András Hámori
Ildikó Kemény
Jonathan Olsberg
Lajos Szakacsi

| writer = Imre Kertész

| starring = Marcell Nagy
Áron Dimény
András M. Kecskés
József Gyabronka
Endre Harkányi

| music = Ennio Morricone

| cinematography = Gyula Pados

| editing = Hajnal Sellő

| distributor = THINKFilm

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2005|02|08|Hungarian Film Festival|2006|01|06|United States}}

| runtime = 136 minutes

| country = Germany
Hungary
United Kingdom

| language = Hungarian
German
English

| budget =

| gross = $2,512,009{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0367082/?ref_=bo_se_r_1|title=Fateless (2005)|website=Box Office Mojo}}

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Fateless ({{langx|hu|Sorstalanság}}) is a Hungarian film directed by Lajos Koltai, released in 2005. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel Fatelessness by the Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész, who also wrote the screenplay. It tells the story of a teenage boy who is sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald.{{Cite web|title=Screening of Hungarian film, Fateless, 21 April 2015|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ireland/en/about-us/screening-of-hungarian-film-fateless-21-april-2015|access-date=2021-09-25|website=www.europarl.europa.eu|language=en}}

The film's music was composed by Ennio Morricone, and one of its songs was sung by Lisa Gerrard. The film is one of the most expensive ever produced in Hungary, with a cost of $12 million.

The film also features British actor Daniel Craig, who plays a cameo as a United States Army sergeant.

The film was screened in Hungary and Germany (at Berlinale), at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado as well as the Toronto International Film Festival.{{Cite web|title=Telluride Film Festival|url=https://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/news|access-date=2021-09-25|website=www.telluridefilmfestival.org}}