CAST:
Ralph Fiennes (Ignatz Sonnenschein / Adam Sors / Ivan Sors),
Rosemary Harris (Valerie Sors),
Rachel Weisz (Greta),
Jennifer Ehle (Valerie Sonnenschein),
Deborah Kara Unger (Carole Kovács)

SCRIPT:
István Szabó,
Israel Horovitz

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Lajos Koltai

Synopsis:
This is an overwhelming epic saga about a Jewish family that gained wealth and reputation in the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ralph Fiennes plays the roles of the family’s patriarchs in three generations of the Sonnenschein/Sors family - grandfather, father and son. The head of the family, a judge and patriot, gets killed during the early days of the anti-Jewish campaign. The oldest son Ignatz is forced to change his last name in order to get a job as a judge, so the family’s new name becomes Sors. After WWI, Ignatz’s son Adam becomes Catholic, because as a Jew he was forbidden to participate in fencing competitions. With the rise of Nazism, the Jewish family is in great danger…

35 mm, b/w and color, 181 min