It's a big commitment to watch this three-hour film, but it's emphatically worth it.
Sunshine is such a film.
Over the twentieth century, Hungary careens from monarchy to communism to fascism back to communism and finally emerges at the other end to an uncertain future. We experience this century of nearly unrelieved misery through the lives of three generations of a Jewish family named Sonnsenschein, ironically meaning the Sunshine of the film's title. It's a big commitment to watch this three-hour film, but it's emphatically worth it. Everything about it is first rate, including the acting, the music, the gorgeous interiors, and especially its panoramic historical sweep entwined with deeply affecting human stories. It is one of the finest pictures of its kind I've ever seen.