István Szabó
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István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó in 2012
Sunshine (1999 film)
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Sunshine is a 1999 epic historical drama film directed by István Szabó and written by Israel Horovitz and Szabó. It follows five generations of a Hungarian Jewish family, originally named Sonnenschein
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…socialist government, as well as a variety of types of sexual harassment in the new Hungary. The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Sunshine (1999)—a three-hour historical epic, and an English-language, international co-production—was viewed by many critics as Szabó's most ambitious film…
American theatrical release poster
Olympian Attila Petschauer was an inspiration to the film.
Apartment building still bearing the film's markings of the fictional 1870 Sonnenschein mansion and distillery, at 15 Bokréta Street, in Budapest's central Ferencváros district (2008).
Ralph Fiennes received positive reviews for his performance of three characters.