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My Father's Happy Years (1977)

Drama

89 minutos

Drama

89 minutos

Director: Sándor Simó

Reparto: Loránd Lohinszky,István Bujtor,Eszter Szakács,József Madaras,Dezső Garas,Péter Andorai,Irma Patkós,Judit Meszléry,Györgyi Tarján,Tamás Dunai,Péter Harsányi,

Fecha de Estreno: 1977-02-28

Sinopsis

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.