Former cinematographer Lajos Koltai stunned the Berlin Film Festival with this second World War drama based on the 1975 Nobel Prize winning novel by Imre Kertesz, a quasi-autobiographical work about his experiences as a 14-year-old deported to the camps from Budapest.
Gyuri, a boy whose father has been ordered to report to a forced-labour camp, follows a neighbour's advice and travels by bus rather than train to work. This happenstance takes him to Auschwitz, as the authorities are rounding up Jewish bus passengers for deportation. With a memorable score by Ennio Morricone and a cameo from Daniel Craig Fateless is a moving and memorable film that the UK Guardian newspaper gave four stars and called "an extremely powerful film."