The story of three generations of the Sonnenschein family, from the
Hapsburg Empire to the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. With his
medicinal liquor, Emmanuel Sonnenschein amassed a huge personal fortune
and overcame anti-Semitic prejudice in Hungarian society for a
time. But his son Adam, despite winning a gold medal in the 1936
Olympics, cannot escape the Holocaust. It was to avenge his death
that his son Ivan chose to make a career in politics.
A wave of fresh talent in the late 1950s, early 1960s brought about a dramatic renaissance in French cinema, placing the auteur at the core of France's 7th art.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.