''Sunshine'' is a 1999
historical drama film
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directed by
István Szabó
István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the ...
and written by
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio a ...
and Szabó. It follows five generations of a
Hungarian Jewish
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived ...
family, originally named Sonnenschein (german: "sunshine"), later changed to Sors ( hu, "fate"), during
changes in Hungary, focusing mostly on the three generations from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. The family story traverses the creation of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire through to the period after the
1956 Revolution, while the characters are forced to surrender much of their identity and endure family conflict. The central male protagonist of all three generations is portrayed by
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( ; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shak ...
. The film's stars include
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Hannah Weisz (; born 7 March 1970 ) is an English actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a BAFTA Award.
Weisz began acting in British stage and television in the ...
and
John Neville, with the real-life daughter and mother team of
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Anne Ehle (; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress, the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. She gained fame for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries '' Pride and Prejudi ...
and
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. In ...
playing the same character across a six-decade storyline.
The film was an
international co-production
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among companies from
Germany
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,
Austria
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,
Hungary
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, and
Canada
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. It won three
European Film Awards
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, including
Best Actor for Fiennes, and three Canadian
Genie Awards
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, including
Best Motion Picture.
Plot
The mid-19th-century patriarch of the
Hungarian-Jewish
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived i ...
Sonnenschein (meaning "Sunshine" in German) family is a tavern owner who makes his own popular distilled herb-based
tonic in
Austria-Hungary
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. The tonic, called Taste of Sunshine, is later commercially made by his son, Emmanuel, bringing the family great wealth and prestige. He builds a large estate where his oldest son, Ignatz, falls in love with his first cousin, Valerie, despite the disapproval of Emmanuel and Rose, his wife. Ignatz, while studying in law school, begins an affair with Valerie. Ignatz graduates and later earns a place as a respected district judge, when he is asked by the chief judge to
change his Jewish surname to a Hungarian one in order to be promoted to the central court. The entire generation – Ignatz, his physician brother Gustave and photographer cousin Valerie – change their last name to Sors (meaning "fate" in Hungarian). Ignatz then gets promoted when he tells the
Minister of Justice
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a way to delay the prosecution of corrupt politicians.
In the spring of 1899, when Valerie becomes pregnant, she and Ignatz happily marry before the birth of their son, Istvan. Their second son, Adam, is born in 1902. Ignatz continues to support the
Habsburg monarchy, while Gustave pushes for a
communist revolution. Both brothers enlist in the
Austro-Hungarian Army
The Austro-Hungarian Army (, literally "Ground Forces of the Austro-Hungarians"; , literally "Imperial and Royal Army") was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918. It was composed of three parts: the joint arm ...
as officers during
World War I
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. Emmanuel dies on the same day as the Emperor. In the days after the war, Valerie briefly leaves him for another man, the old monarchy collapses, and Ignatz loses his judicial position under a series of short-lived
socialist
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and
communist regimes in which Gustave is involved. When a new
monarchy
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emerges and asks Ignatz to oversee trials of retribution against the communists, he declines and is forced to retire. His health deteriorates rapidly and he dies, leaving Valerie as the head of the family.
Istvan and Adam both join the Jewish-run Civic Fencing Club. Adam becomes the best fencer in Hungary, and General Jakofalvy invites him to convert to
Roman Catholicism in order to join the nation's top military, non-Jewish, fencing club. While Adam and Istvan are converting, Adam meets Hannah, who is converting at the request of her fiancé and woos her into marrying him. Adam wins the national fencing championship two years in a row and goes on to lead the national team to the
1936 Olympic gold medal in Team Sabre in
Nazi Germany
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, becoming a national hero in Hungary. Istvan's wife, Greta, pursues Adam until they start a secret affair.
New Hungarian laws are passed discriminating against people with any near Jewish ancestors, and the Sors family is initially shielded by the exceptions in the laws. However, Adam is soon expelled from the military fencing club. Greta finally convinces the family that they must emigrate to save their children, but they are too late to get exit visas.
When Germany
occupies Hungary, Valerie and Hannah are immediately moved into the
Budapest Ghetto. Valerie escapes and hides in a friend's attic, but nobody knows how or where Hannah died. Adam and his son Ivan are sent to a labor camp, where Adam is beaten, stripped naked, and hosed with water until he freezes to death. Istvan, Greta, and their son are summarily shot by Nazis.
After the war, the surviving Sors family returns to the Sonnenschein estate. The elderly Gustave returns from exile and is invited into the
communist government
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, Valerie manages the household, and Ivan becomes a
state policeman, working for police Major General Knorr rounding up fascists from the wartime regime. Ivan rises quickly in the communist ranks and begins an affair with Carole, the wife of a high-ranking communist official. Later,
Army
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General Kope asks Ivan to start vigorously arresting Jews, including Knorr, who are suspected of inciting conspiracies against the current government. After Gustave dies, Kope informs Ivan that his uncle would have been next to be investigated.
When
Stalin
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dies in 1953, Ivan feels guilty for helping Kope and not saving Knorr. He leaves the police force and swears to fight the communist regime. In the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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, he steps up as a leader but is imprisoned after it fails. Released at the end of the decade, he returns to live together with Valerie in a single room of the former family estate. She falls ill while they search for the tonic recipe—after she dies, he fruitlessly continues the search. Ivan changes his name from Sors back to Sonnenschein and concludes his storytelling after the
end of the communist regime in 1989.
Cast
Themes
Psychologist Diana Diamond identified themes in the film as "Trauma, familial and historical", and how it has lasting effects on the individual's psychology. The character Ivan's status as
narrator
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reflects this theme, as he witnesses Adam's death in the concentration camp. In exploring the relationship between Ignatz, Valerie and their brother Gustave and alleged
adultery
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, the film portrays "
Oedipal rivalries" and
incest
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. Author Christian Schmitt adds ''Sunshine'' may also strive to add a message of hope to the tragedies of history.
Professor Dragon Zoltan writes the film starts by contrasting the title ''Sunshine'' with clouds as a backdrop, to communicate a force standing in the way of the sunshine. He argues the name of the family's brand, Taste of Sunshine, which is also the literal translation of the film's Hungarian title, suggests that the family's happiness stays with those who have tasted it, even after it is finished. The name Sonnenschein is also said in the film to underline the family's Jewish background, while Sors (''fate'') maintains the first two letters while erasing the Jewish traces. Ivan becomes a Sonnenschein again after reading a letter telling him how to live, representing the lost recipe of the family brand.
Production
Development
Although the story is a work of fiction, the film draws inspiration from historic events. The Sonnenschein family's liquor business was based on the
Zwack family's liquor brand
Unicum
Unicum () is a Hungarian herbal liqueur or bitters, drunk as a digestif and apéritif. The liqueur was created in 1790 and is today produced by Zwack according to a secret formula of more than forty herbs; the drink is aged in oak casks. Du ...
. One of Fiennes's three roles is based at least partly on Hungarian Olympian
Attila Petschauer
Attila Petschauer (December 14, 1904 – January 30, 1943) was a Hungarian Olympic champion sabre fencer of Jewish heritage.
Fencing career
Petschauer was born in Budapest, and was Jewish.
He fenced first at a salle in Budapest opened in 18 ...
. Another role in the film which is similar to that of a historic person is the character Andor Knorr, played by
William Hurt
William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various awards including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
H ...
, which closely resembles the latter part of the life of
László Rajk
László Rajk (8 March 1909 – 15 October 1949) was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an important organizer of the Hungarian Communists' power (for example, organizi ...
. Sonnenschein itself was a name in director
István Szabó
István Szabó (; born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
Szabó is one of the most notable Hungarian filmmakers and one who has been best known outside the Hungarian-speaking world since the ...
's family.
Hungarian-born Canadian producer
Robert Lantos
Robert Lantos, CM (born 3 April 1949) is a Hungarian-Canadian film producer.
Life and career
Lantos was born on 3 April 1949 in Budapest, the son of Ágnes (Bodor) and László Lantos, a mechanic and truck company owner. Lantos spent much of hi ...
aspired to help make a film reflecting his family background of Hungarian Jews. ''Sunshine'' was his first project after leaving the position of CEO in
Alliance Films.
Szabó shared his idea for the story with Lantos, a friend, in a restaurant, and Lantos was interested. Szabó submitted a screenplay of 400 pages in
Hungarian, with Lantos persuading him to condense it and translate to
English
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.
The budget was $26 million.
Filming
Shooting took place mainly in
Budapest
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.
The Berlin Olympics scene was shot in Budapest and required 1,000
extras.
The exterior of the Budapest estate of the Sonnenschein family, with a large mansion and distillery, was filmed at an apartment building at 15 Bokréta Street (Bokréta utca 15), in the city's central
Ferencváros
Ferencváros () is the 9th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest IX. kerülete), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
History
The development of Fe ...
district.
The filmmakers painted a sign near the top of the building's façade to identify it, for purposes of the story, as belonging to "Emmanuel Sonnenschein & tsa. Liquer" (where tsa. translates to co., for Company).
[ In July 2008, director Szabó and cinematographer Koltai were on hand as invited guests for the grand re-opening of the apartment complex, as the municipal and district governments chose to maintain the fictional company name on the façade and officially name it ''The Sonnenschein House'', after the governments spent 300 million forints renovating the building.][Google street view, as of September 2017, still shows film markings "EMMANUEL SONNENSCHEIN & tsa. ("Company") LIQUEUR"]
/ref> Interior shots of the family mansion were filmed at a nearby building, on Liliom Street.[
Fiennes described Szabó as very specific in how scenes were staged and how performances were given. On some shooting days, Fiennes would play all three of his characters, particularly if a specific location was only available for a limited time.
]
Release
The film premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival
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in September 1999. Alliance Atlantis
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distributed the film in Canada. It opened in Vancouver
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, Toronto
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and Montreal
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from 17 to 19 December 1999.
This was followed by a release in Munich
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and Budapest in mid-January 2000, with a wider release in Germany, Austria and Hungary later that month. In February 2000, it was showcased in the 31st Hungarian Film Week, held in Budapest, where it won the Gene Moskowitz Best Film award. After U.S. screenings in summer 2000, Paramount Classics re-released it in New York City
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and Los Angeles
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on 1 December to promote ''Sunshine'' for the Academy Awards
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.
Reception
Box office
On the opening weekend in the Canadian limited release, the film made $42,700. In its first 19 days, the film grossed $300,000 in Canada, with expectations that if the film made a profit, it would be due to international screenings, TV rights and VHS and DVD
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.
By 25 November 2000, it had made $1 million in Canadian theatres. The film finished its run after grossing $5,096,267 in North America. It made $2,511,593 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $7,607,860.
Critical reception
''Sunshine'' has a 74% approval rating and average rating of 7.2 out of 10, based on 65 reviews, on Rotten Tomatoes
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. Roger Ebert gave ''Sunshine'' three stars, calling it "a movie of substance and thrilling historical sweep". In ''Time
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'', Richard Schickel
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remarked on the irony of the title in a film that conveyed how history devastates people.
''National Review
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s John Simon praised Szabó's direction, Lajos Koltai's cinematography and especially the performances of Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( ; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shak ...
and the supporting cast. In ''The New Republic
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'', Stanley Kauffmann
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Career
Kauffmann started with ''The New Republic'' in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next fifty ...
compared Szabó favorably to David Lean in a cinematic treatment of history, and despite the long runtime, "''Sunshine'' is so sumptuous, the actors so refresh the very idea of good acting, that we are left grateful".
In ''The New York Times
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'', A.O. Scott
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assessed the film as occasionally awkward, but wrote it made the viewer think. Michael Wilmington of ''The Chicago Tribune
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'' gave the film three and a half stars, praising it for its aesthetic photography and defending Fiennes for "deep understanding, burning intensity and rich contrast". Mick LaSalle
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called ''Sunshine'' "glorious", Fiennes "superb", and also praised Weisz, Ehle and Hurt. ''Time'' later placed it in its top 10 films of 2000.
Eddie Cockrell criticized the film in ''Variety
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'' for a "general rushed feel of the proceedings" in covering a great deal of history. ''The Guardian
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'' critic Andrew Pulver wrote ''Sunshine'' depended on Fiennes, who "only partly succeeds", negatively reviewing Fiennes' performances as Ignatz and Ivan.
Accolades
''Sunshine'' received 14 nominations at the 20th Genie Awards
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, following the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television
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's decision to revise rules allowing films with only a minority of Canadian involvement in production to compete, which also allowed '' Felicia's Journey'' to be nominated for 10.
See also
* List of Holocaust films
These films deal with the Holocaust in Europe, comprising both documentaries and narratives. They began to be produced in the early 1940s before the extent of the Holocaust at that time was widely recognized.
The films span a range of genres, wit ...
* Cultural representations of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
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