Fateless (2005)

Director of photography Lajos Koltai made this masterpiece at age 60, his first film as a director. It's about the life of a young Jewish - Hungarian boy in a concentration camp, in 1944. Very different of what you have seen on the subject (Shindler's list, La vita e bella etc). Short scenes full of emotion, almost silent, splendid monochromatic photography and breath-taking atmosphere. Very nice reconstitution of Budapest during the war too.

Based on a master autobiogpaphy novel by the great Hungarian , Imre Kertesz.