Sunshine (1999)

"... and I knew the only way I could live my life was to account for it." With these words ends the story that the Hungarian Jew Adam Sonnenschein has been telling his tired watcher for three hours. Starting with his great-grandfather, ending with him, the story skims over different masculine extremities: the grandfather serving the emperor in the Austro-Hungarian empire, the father ignoring the fascists as long as he can, Adam himself hooking up with the communists until he comes to the conclusion quoted above and starts leading a less politically extreme life which, unfortunately, we don't get to see. His new life is modelled after the philosophy of his grandmother who, in her own words, "though I could never be a communist quite like you were, felt pity with the poor picking up the crums in the street" and, apart from that, dedicated all the time she didn't spend consoling the male family members with caring looks to taking pictures of what's beautiful in life. --- This was recommended as an introduction to Hungarian history, but really it was but a lovestory repeated thrice and glamourized by different uniforms and stiff faces. The storyline was so... Western.