3 real historical locations · Hungary, Poland
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 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Hungary, Poland.
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...
View location →Ivan Sonnenschein, Olympic fencing champion who converted to Christianity and changed his name, is deported to Auschwitz as a Jew regardless — the assimilati...
The film follows three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family from the Habsburg era through Communism. The second generation's story — a Jewish athlete murdered at Auschwitz despite conversion — mirrors real cases.
View location →The third generation of Sonnenscheins lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution — a coda that shows the Jewish family's century-long journey ending in a ne...
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks in November. The film uses it to close a multigenerational arc: a family that survived Nazism must now reckon with Communism's collapse. Ralph Fiennes plays th...
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