Fateless (2005)

Marcell Nagy: Köves Gyuri

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  György Köves : [narrating]  People only ask about the horrors, whereas I should talk about the happiness of the camps next time, if they ask. If they ask at all. And if I don't forget myself.

• Rozi : So people don't hate you?

  György Köves : Who would hate me?

  Rozi : Everyone.

  György Köves : But why?

  Rozi : Because of this!

  [points at his star] 

  György Köves : Oh, that? Well, they may hate me, but I don't think it's me they hate. Net me personally, just in general.

  Rozi : They hate in general?

  György Köves : In general, yes. Not you, not me, but... the idea of a Jew.

  Rozi : Great. Because I for one don't really know what that is.

• György Köves : [hearing bombers overhead]  Will it drop or won't it? That was the question. I just had to recognize the pittance of the stake, so that I could enjoy the game. I was beginning to grasp the simple secret of my universe. I could be killed anywhere, any time.

• Man on train : You must have suffered many dreadful things.

  György Köves : Depends on what you call dreadful.

• Man on train : The main thing is it's over, you survived. What do you feel now you're home again, in the town that you left behind?

  György Köves : Hatred.

• György Köves : I tried to comfort you, but I had no right because I was a Jew too.

  Rozi : Why, what are you now?

  György Köves : I don't know. Maybe I don't even exist.