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SUNSHINE

In 1860 the Sonnenschein family made a fortune by producing a miraculous tonic herb. Sell \u200b\u200bthe plant, after the accidental explosion of the distillery, Emmanuel's family moved to Budapest.
Emmanuel has two sons, Ignatz and Gustav, as well as a niece, Valerie, daughter of his dead brother, whom he adopted as his daughter. Ignatz becomes a highly respected judge, and despite the opposition of parents, falls in love with her cousin-sister and wife Valerie. Ignatz's career, however, there are difficulties because of his Jewish origins who force him to change his name to Sors.
the First World War broke out. Ignatz is a fervent imperialist, unlike his brother Gustav, a fearless Socialist, persecuted by the empire. The two rivals will meet not only in war but also love for Valerie who, tired of the attitude of her husband, the emperor that more devoted to family, will leave along with his two sons.

the death of Ignatz, Valerie takes the reins of the family and raise her two children, Istvan and Adam, in the family home. Adam embarks on a career in sport fencing, but is hampered by his Jewish religion. They are the 30s, Hitler is coming and to participate at the Berlin Olympics of 1936, Adam converts to Catholicism. Meanwhile Hanna meets and falls in love. The two are married and have a son, Ivan. Adam leaves for the Olympics and won the gold medal in fencing, but his victory will soon be overshadowed by racial persecution came into force in Hungary and his name's not bombastic enough to escape the concentration camps, where he will be killed before the eyes of the child.

Sors The family is being decimated by the Holocaust. Saved only the old Valerie, the old Gustav, who had taken refuge in France, and the young Ivan, who survived the camps. His return home in a Budapest devastated and confused, led him to embrace the communist witch hunt in full. But the October Revolution in 1958, the overwhelm and push the other side. Will be sentenced to five years in prison, during which he realizes all his disappointments. Released from prison finds her old grandmother, Valerie, now at the end, but only true witness of his origins and his conscience until the day of his death. For
Ivan comes the time to take the origins of the family, to really find himself ...

THE FILM

The Hungarian director Istvan Szabó ( Mephisto, Being Julia ) is one of the few internationally acclaimed filmmakers who manage to pack more flavor of the film craft built with passion and detailed study of every little facet.
Sunshine Filmon is a three-hour deals with subjects that are very important, as expressed over a long period of time, within a Jewish family that will address, at the end of the first part 800 and 900, the most important events not only of his family history but the history of mankind.
Sunshine, in English, means precisely Sonnenschein, a name of Hebrew origin that represents not only the family but the entire Jewish population grappling with the eternal persecution in one way or another, has always marked the its existence.
Szabó stops to analyze the ages, but especially the compromises to which they are subjected family members over the years to satisfy his ambition or just to be accepted by a society that has always viewed with suspicion and has always despised them. As an indelible mark.

The extreme versatility of an actor like Ralph Fiennes offers three different characters together, united by bonds of blood but divided by their different ambitions and technical prescriptions. Ignatz's son Adam and his nephew Ivan (all three played by Fiennes) have children of their time and as such are sucked by the current political, social and human overwhelm them in a vortex-sac.
Ignatz is a judge, faithful to his duty for which he goes to sacrifice their loved ones, their origins, his name and his honor, but to serve his Emperor in a war that will see him defeated. At the end of the war will lose all enthusiasm for life, despite his wife Valerie will always be next, even after separation, but their ways of thinking and their worlds are too different, and die in a few years, along with that empire to so much thought.

son Adam suffers from the naughty boy of his companions that his being a jew, despite the name Hungarian Sors. He manages to redeem itself with its sporting abilities, becoming a great fencer, but that shadow Semitic is seen as a disgrace to his country and comes to renounce his religion, to become a Catholic, just to reach the summit and be accepted into the Olympic team. Win the gold medal, it will become a national hero, but his pride will not see the storm clouds on the horizon. Confident and ambitious, as the superman of his time, entertain an adulterous relationship with the sister Greta, while loving wife, a victim of its own weaknesses. But the Holocaust will sweep their lives, dividing forever, and his own pride will bring him to death in a gruesome horror Nazi victim, under the eyes of the helpless child.

Ivan is the result of the heir to the work of his predecessors: a boy not yet a man who survived the violence of the extermination camps, confused and fragile, insecure on the road to take. Find the road of political, embracing the communist party as the only way of redemption, but very soon you will realize how all systems will look like and how in all didatture that promise freedom, actually nest in the deepest injustice.
Ivan is the one who for the first time in the history of his family will take a position, will remain in balance at the end of his convictions and riapproprierà of its roots and of that name that his ancestors had so easily denied: Sonnenschein.

A "ferry" the various characters in the story, the ever-present figure of Valerie Sonnenschein, played by Jennifer Ehle (young) and Rosemary Harris (from old): a free woman, modern and intellectual, but perhaps the most loyal with herself and true to its roots. It will be the madam of the spirit of the family, free of the tragedies, losses and wounds that time has left.

not have been easy to assemble a script so full of events, personal nuances, and reconnect to the true chronological history of Hungary. Too many irons in the fire can often confuse, annoy or be too hasty for the enormity and seriousness of agomenti treated. Szabó
have managed, with a skilled hand and sensitive, although at times he let go and sentimental scenes of sex or just not to sound too didactic, but at the expense of the real substance of the film.

Excellent sets and locations, mostly filmed in and around Budapest, Berlin, Paris and in the beautiful historic center of Vienna. Much sought after costumes, beautiful in every period covered, and the soundtrack, by Michel Jarre.
A film about the importance of their origins, their honor and futility of escape themselves, skillfully built on the wings of history by the expert hand of a good director of School.

CAST

Ralph Fiennes is Ignatz Sonnenschein, Adam and Ivan Sors.
Grandfather, father and grandson, three performances in three different contexts. Three generations conceived compared with the essence of their time, with strength and determination. A good test of Fiennes, the protagonist of each frame and the axle of the history, dominates the film with his charismatic presence and his impeccable embodiment of each character, drawing from each other than humanity. For this role Fiennes won a European Film Awards (the European Academy) in 1999, deserved.

Jennifer Ehle and Rosemary Harris are Valerie Sonnenschein .
Mother and daughter in real life, the two actresses impersonating the character of Valerie by young and old. An excellent interpretation of the latter mainly in its strength and its simplicity. A woman who was carried away as men of his family, but he faced the loving and living life in full consciousness of itself, without compromise.

Rachel Weisz is Greta .
brief but intense role, Greta is the sister of Adam: always in love with him and marries his older brother, Istvan, but does not hesitate to seduce him, heedless of the consequences. Selfish and passionate, Greta is a woman who does not give up and get what he wants, but the tragic events will not give more space to his hopes. Weisz will return to the always excellent to work with Fiennes in The Constant Gardener .

Completing the cast in the role of James Frain Gustav young, Molly Parker in to Hanna, the wife of Adam, William Hurt in to Andor Knorr and Deborah Kara Unger in to Carole , the lover of Ivan.

Released muted a bit all over the world and maybe ever in Italy, I found this DVD just for my passion for the actor Ralph Fiennes. This film offers perhaps one of his best performances: never a flaw, never drop style, perfect in every shot. But despite the plot, do not expect yet another film about the Holocaust or even a melodrama of the past.

SUNSHINE a vision and deserves careful reflection.
The director puts his characters as pawns on a chess board: men who play with his own fate as a game of chess where every move can move events and every mistake will lead them to the brink of their lives.
Through the narrative more or less detailed history of his homeland, the film focuses on this Jewish family and places it in the middle of a storyline that alternates History in history, presenting the events that changed the humanity of the last century through the eyes of three generations.

Despite the accurate staging, enriched with beautiful scenery and costumes, Szabó indulges in parentheses, however worthy of a soap opera, perhaps with a view to lighten the narrative and capture more the public's attention: successful experiment in half, because sometimes, in my opinion, some scenes are inappropriate or too ostentatious. However, I can not praise the work as a whole, rich in detail, some interesting and unusual historical aspects to our knowledge, supported by a script too linear at times but not devoid of rhythm.
A movie not boring, as long as you undertake a fundamental interest.
Otherwise, forget it ...