Sunshine (1999 film)
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| Sunshine | |
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 Theatrical poster for Sunshine |
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| Directed by | István Szabó |
| Produced by | András Hámori |
| Written by | István Szabó Israel Horovitz |
| Starring | Ralph Fiennes Rosemary Harris Rachel Weisz Jennifer Ehle Deborah Kara Unger Molly Parker James Frain |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Lajos Koltai |
| Editing by | Michel Arcand Dominique Fortin |
| Release date(s) | December 17, 1999 |
| Running time | 181 min |
| Country | Germany Austria Canada Hungary |
| Language | English French |
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Sunshine (Hungarian: A napfény íze; German: Sunshine - Ein Hauch von Sonnenschein) is an award winning 1999 film directed, written and produced by István Szabó.
It follows three generations of a Jewish family (originally called "Sonnenschein" but later changed to "Sors") during the changes to Austria-Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The central male protagonist of all three generations is portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in order to emphasize the bond between fathers and sons. In addition to Fiennes, the film stars the real-life mother-and-daughter team of Rosemary Harris and Jennifer Ehle as well as Rachel Weisz and John Neville.
The film weaves events drawn from several real sources into the story — one of Fiennes's three roles is based at least partly on Hungarian Olympian Attila Petschauer, but also includes allusions to the early life of George Soros (orig. Schwartz), Miksa Fenyõ and other famous Hungarians of Jewish origin who suffered from anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in WWII Hungary.
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