1 real historical location · Hungary
Istvan Szabo's Hungarian epic follows three generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family who change their name to assimilate, serve successive regimes, and lose something of themselves with each accommodation. A century of Central European Jewish history compressed into one family's tragedy.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Hungary.
Three generations of the Hungarian-Jewish Sonnenschein/Sors family — from Habsburg assimilation through Holocaust and Stalinist persecution — all portrayed b...
Budapest's Jewish community of nearly 200,000 was Hungary's largest. Unlike Jews in German-occupied areas, Hungarian Jews were largely protected until March 1944. In 56 days from May to July 1944, 437,000 Hungarian Je...
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