Movie Description:
When great-grandpa Sonnenschein(the name means "sunshine") bottled the cure-all elixir "A taste of Sunshine," he established a family fortune and assumedhis sons would continue the business. But great-grandpa`s sons-and family memebers to come-had very different hopes and dreams. Ralph Fiennes(EnglishPatient) plays not one, but three roles in this compelling and acclaimed epic about a Jewish family caught up in the upheavals and false hopes of the war-swept 20th century. A distinguished castjoins Fiennes, including Jennifer Ehle as free-spirited young Valerie, RosemaryHarris asthe Valerie of later years, andWilliam Hurt as a war survivor whose newpost as a communist official gives him power over his former enemies.