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Released
2005 · FILM

Fateless

You can close your eyes. You can turn away. But you will never forget.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
140 min
Language
HU
DramaRomanceWar

Synopsis

A Hungarian teenager comes of age at the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. György Köves is 14 years old, the son of a merchant who is sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György finds work at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish passengers are sent to the camps. There, he experiences camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He also discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, he must confront what he will find there. What is natural? What does it mean to be a Jew? The film alternates between sepia, black and white, and color to reflect the shifting moods.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hajnal SelloShot by Gyula PadosScored by Ennio MorriconeDesigned by Tibor Lazar

Box Office

2005 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 10× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.5M

Budget$250K
Worldwide gross$2.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Fateless – Roman eines Schicksallosende
  • Fatelessen
  • Campos de Esperanzaes
  • Être sans destinfr
  • Senza destinoit
  • Senza destino - Fatelessit

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