Does anyone know Marcel Nagy?

Marcel Naji plays the role of teenager Jurji in the film Life Without Destiny. This film is based on the novel of the same name by Imre Chertes, a Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 2002. Image courtesy of Think Film.

Our reporter Ji Kang reported that the film of the same name, which was adapted from the novel Destiny by Hungarian writer and 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Imre Chertes, was released in the "Film Forum" in new york last Friday (1October 65438+6) and will compete for this year's Oscar. In recent days, local media in new york have been focusing on this film.

Life without Destiny is an autobiographical novel by Cserto. It tells the story of a Hungarian Jewish boy named Kevis Giurgi, who is 14 years old. He recalls his experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Zeitz. This is also Chertes' own real experience. 1945, he was rescued by American troops in Buchenwald, and it took him 30 years to publish this novel in Hungary. After another 30 years, the film of the same name adapted by him was finally finished.

The novel and the literary script of A Life Without Destiny have been published in Chinese by Shanghai Translation Publishing House and Writers Publishing House respectively, but the latter has been translated as "unfortunate fate".

The New York Times interviewed 76-year-old Chertes in Berlin. "How can you not be moved when you see your own story?" He said, "I think this movie is very good, but it is different from the book."

I saw the trailer of this movie. Although it is not long, it feels really beautiful. However, perhaps it is more appropriate to describe it as "sad beauty". Movies depicting the Holocaust have been extremely prosperous, and in recent years, they have emerged one after another, but Life Without Destiny has its own characteristics. It is different from Spielberg's Schindler's List, Polanski's The Pianist, or Benigni's A Beautiful Life. But to look at the life in the concentration camp from the perspective of a growing teenager, which is more confused than fear, hunger and hatred. "This film is more autobiographical than this book," Cserto said. "I can't even tell whether I write a script based on my own memory or the memory of a book. This film should avoid the old routine of Holocaust movies. It can be full of feelings, but it is never sentimental. "

There is a scene in the film that is not in the novel: an American military officer who is also a Jew suggested that Zhu Erji immigrate to the United States, but he wanted to go back to Budapest to reunite with his family.

However, like Cserto Shi, Jurji is homeless. His father died in another concentration camp in Austria, his mother remarried and his house was occupied by another family. Even so, he still can't understand the fact that half a million Hungarian Jews died in concentration camps. When someone asked him about Nazi atrocities, he only remembered his own happiness.

"Yes," the novel wrote in Jurji's tone. "The next time someone asks me, I should say it out loud and talk about the happiness of the concentration camp. If someone asks me. Or I haven't forgotten it myself. "

For this kind of "happiness", Chertes explained that it represents a kind of "resistance, aiming at the victim role given to me by society", and its purpose is to decide my own destiny.

The film Life Without Destiny used 144 actors and 500 extras to build a special "concentration camp" with a total cost of130,000 USD. This is the most expensive film in Hungarian history and the most successful Hungarian film this year.

The film was directed by Lajous Corthie Tai, a Hungarian who worked as a photographer in 1982' s mephistopheles, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This is his first feature film directed independently.

Corthie Yi said, "After writing the script, imre said,' This is my gift to you, and you have to return it with the movie in the future. " "

He also said that the most exciting thing is that in Hungary, many teenagers have seen this film. They fell in love with the boy in the film and realized that Zhu Erji's fate might also befall them, just like the boy who was suddenly taken away from the bus in the film. "In today's world, this kind of thing will happen anywhere and anyone." He said.

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