My Father's Happy Years

8.0 (1 votes)• 1977• 89m•Released

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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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Languages: Hungarian

Director: Sándor Simó

Starring Cast: Loránd Lohinszky, István Bujtor, Eszter Szakács, József Madaras, Dezső Garas, Péter Andorai

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Loránd Lohinszky

István Bujtor

Eszter Szakács

József Madaras

Dezső Garas

Péter Andorai

Irma Patkós

Judit Meszléry

Györgyi Tarján

Tamás Dunai

Péter Harsányi

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