Lajos Koltai to direct next film in US

The script for the film, based on Susan Minot?s novel Evening, centres on a dying mother who reveals to her two daughters the details of a love affair she had forty years earlier, the director?s wife told the Hungarian Press Agency (MTI) on Friday.

Minot is best known in Hungary for writing the script for Bernardo Bertolucci?s 1996 film Stealing Beauty.

Fateless, was based on Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz?s novel of the same title and was made shortly after Kertesz won the Nobel Prize in literature. The film was met with critical acclaim when it premiered in the US. The New York Times said it was ?among the best nondocumentary cinematic treatments of the Holocaust yet produced -- dry as well as devastating, and illuminated by surprising flashes of absurdist humor that carry the authority of lived experience.? (Fateless was based on Kertesz?s own childhood experiences.) And the Washington Post called it an ?extraordinary film?.

Mrs Koltai said her husband was very pleased with the opportunity to direct a second film, to feature American actors and crew, and to be shot in the US.