The Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary
requests the pleasure of your company at the Holocaust Memorial Month screening of
Lajos Koltai: Sorstalanság/Fateless (2005)
in Hungarian with English subtitles
Time: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Address: 2950 Spring of Freedom Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008
Summary: Gyuri Köves is an ordinary adolescent Jewish boy living an ordinary life in Budapest in 1944. Not long after his father is deported to a forced labour camp, Köves is also arrested and put on a cattle truck of a train en route to Auschwitz, and then to Buchenwald. Köves does not rebel against his fate, he is not surprised, and does not look for a way out. He makes passing friendships as he finds himself next to adults and children; some are already burnt-out, terrified or compliant, while others are tough characters, who then drift away from him. He merely observes the scenes unravelling before him, until he gets back home after a long series of accidents, lucky and unlucky twists and turns of fate, proving that there is nothing, no matter how absurd it may be, that people can’t survive. The film is based on Imre Kertész’s 1975 novel, which (with his other works) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002.
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(202) 362-6730/201
Email: rsvp.was@mfa.gov.hu
Béla Gedeon
Cultural Attaché/kulturális attasé
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary/Magyar Nagykövetség
3910 Shoemaker Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Tel: (202) 686-4144 Mobile: (202) 460-3411 Fax: (202) 966-8135 Website: washington.kormany.hu
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