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"Sunshine"
1999
Directed by Istvan Szabo

Ralph Fiennes, William Hurt, Rachel Weisz and Deborah Kara Unger star in this epic drama from Istvan Szabo (Mephisto, Colonel Redl). In a tour de force performance, Fiennes plays three roles--father, son, and grandson in a Budapest family that struggles to survive the anti-Semitism that permeates the generations of each man. The film does a marvelous job of recreating the details of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazi and Communist eras in Hungary. "...a meditation on the agonies of 20th-century history. It's a brilliant, profound movie" (Stephen Hunter, Washington Post). In English. 180 minutes.