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''Fateless' is a relentless, harrowing film
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Just when you thought there wasn't anything anyone could say about the Holocaust that hasn't been said many times before, along comes the stunning picture "Fateless." Based on Imre Kertész's semi-autobiographical novel about the years he spent being shunted from one concentration camp to the next during World War II, the drama is, in its way, more powerful than "Schindler's List" with its adamant cataloging of the daily horrors endured by victims of Hitler's Final Solution. It makes "Life Is Beautiful" seem appallingly shallow. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A 14-year-old Jewish boy is swept up by cataclysmic events in Europe in 1944. When he is liberated from a concentration camp and returns home to Budapest, he grows increasingly troubled as he finds those around him treat him with indifference.

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'Fateless'

Director: Lajos Koltai
Starring: Marcell Nagy, Bela Dora, Balint Pentek, Aron Dimeny, Peter Fancsikai, Zsolt Der, Andras M. Kecskes, Dani Szabo, Tibor Mertz, Peter Vida
Run time: 136 minutes
Release date: Jan. 6, 2006
Rating: Not rated, but there are very disturbing concentration camp scenes.
Language: Hungarian, English and German, with subtitles.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A-
"Many of the images are familiar, but they're presented so unsparingly, so uncloaked by emotion, they become freshly potent."