Fateless

Veteran cinematographer Lajos Koltai makes his directing debut with adaptation of Imre Kertész's novel about the Holocaust seen through the eyes of a child who's separated from his family and sent to the Buchenwald camp where he sees the inhumanity without judgment. This striking film differs from the Hollywood films that it doesn't sacrifice its storytelling for the sake of dramatization. Koltai and Kertész want to show the details of cruelty and inhumanity in the camps where people spent years of torture. It's too bad that this film didn't get as much attention as should have due to over saturation of Holocaust films or maybe because Holocaust survivor and Nobel prize winner Kertész has dismissed "Schindler's List" as a lie and expressed his dislike for Spielberg. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.