Sorstalanság (2005)

A 14-year-old boy's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

This is an adaptation from the famous novel by Imre Kertész, and at first I was noticing the difference in tone between film and book. However, the author himself has written the script, so I assume this to be intentional.

Where the book sees the goings on from the view of a young and innocent teenage boy who interprets everything as an adventure and even at times 'understands' and justifies the Nazis' doings, the movie comes in conflict with these same views, since the picture tells a different story. We have the 'real' images, the book tells us the what the boy 'sees'.

Nevertheless, this is an extremely well photographed movie with great actors, the harrowing events embedded in a child's life story. We definitely feel with him and understand that he has survived to a strange world in the aftermath.