08/11/2005

Two nominations in the technical categories for the European Film Awards 2005, which will be handed out on the 3rd December in Berlin, have rewarded a Hungarian film Fateless [+see also:
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film profile] (Sorstalansag). In official competition at the Berlinale (read article ) and candidate for its countries run-in for Oscar nominations for Best Foreign film, the first feature by Lajos Koltai has seen added to the candidates for the EFA for its DoP Gyula Pados and famous Italian composer Ennio Morricone who wrote the music for the film adaptation of the book by Imre Kertesz, Nobel Prize for Literature 2002.

Gyula Pados is 36 and has already won prizes for his work on Fateless with a Golden Swan for best photography at the Copenhagen Festival,. Trained at the Budapest Film School, he stood out with his first shorts and has risen quickly since 2000, with his first job as DoP. Among his films is Kontroll [+see also:
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(Translated from French)