11/01/2005 - Lajos Koltai’s European coproduction, the most expensive film ever made in Hungary, will premiere on February 8th at the Budapest Film Festival. The screening will take place two days ahead in Hungarian and Italian cinemas

Lajos Koltai’s European coproduction Fateless, the most expensive film ever made in Hungary with a budget exceeding €11m, will premiere on February 8th at the Budapest Film Festival. The screening will take place two days ahead of its official opening in Hungarian and Italian cinemas.

Fateless is an adaptation of a novel published in 1975 by the Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz who won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. The drama set in a nazi concentration camp is based on the writer’s own experience in Auschwitz-Birkenau, then Buchenwald at the age of 14. The directorial debut of talented DoP Lajos Koltai (nominated for an Oscar in 2000 and winner of two Italian David Awards) was shot between January and June 2004 in Hungary and Germany. Over 150 actors took part in the film with a music written by Ennio Morricone. Fateless is a co-production between Magic Media in Hungary, EuroArts Entertainment Filmproduktions in Germany and the Renegade Films in the UK, with financial support from the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation and the German Media Funds MFG, MDM and MDR.

(Translated from French)