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(The Taste of) Sunshine

Academy Award winner István Szabó tells in «A Taste Of Sunshine» the story of a jewish family in hungary, which fights against regime, social unfairness and their own torn hearts over two generations - from 1840 till 1956 - but stands together again and again.

 

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It's a unimportent detail that the title differs from country to country, during its production, this film was called "The Taste of Sunshine", now it sometimes just shown as "Sunshine". In Germany, the title is "Ein Hauch von Sonnenschein", that all is because the family's name in the film is "Sonnenschein", which of course, translates as "sunshine".

A taste of sunshine
Ein Hauch von Sonnenschein
Ralph Fiennes won European Film Award for Best Actor, this award also went to the Cinematographer and the Writing in 1999.
The movie got a nomination for the Golden Globes, also does the Director and the Score in 2001.

 

Story

In the beginning there are Ignatz and Valerie Sonnenschein, Jews in Hungary. With time and various characters passing on, Ignatz and Valerie's sons, Adam (Ralph Fiennes) and Istvan (Mark Strong), are young men. Faced with the same anti-Semitism his father faced, Adam decides to convert to Christianity so as to join a prestigious officer's club. During his conversion, he meets Hannah Wippler (Molly Parker), a woman who's not only similarly recently converted, but also engaged to another man.After the war and its devastation in hungary and its people, Valerie (Rosemary Harris) returns home with Adam's Son Ivan (Ralph Fiennes). Having seen the atrocities committed during the war, Adam soon joins Andor Knorr (William Hurt), a communist official heading a witch-hunt of sorts looking for Hungarians who assisted the Nazis during the War.