My Father's Happy Years

    My Father's Happy Years
    1977

    Synopsis

    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.

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      Cast

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