My Father's Happy Years
1977, Hungarian. Directed by Sándor Simó.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Hungarian
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- Released
- 28 February 1977
- Original title
- Apám néhány boldog éve
- Country
- Hungary
- Written by
- Sándor Simó
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Who directed My Father's Happy Years?
My Father's Happy Years (1977) was directed by Sándor Simó and stars Loránd Lohinszky, István Bujtor, Eszter Szakács.