Rating: - humanly beautiful
A great film dealing with love and commitement to family and achieving the american dream..but at what cost. Excellent script with great performances by natassia kinksi. A moving film that should be watched by the whole family. A touching story about immigration and what familys dealt with.
Rating: - Has the potential to be a great film, but falls far from its destination...
`An American Rhapsody' follows the struggles of the Sander family as they flee from Hungary in the 1950's for America and then fight, first to bring their young daughter home and then to keep her safe. Because of the War the Sanders are fleeing their country in pursuit of a better life in the America's. Peter and Margit Sander have two young daughters, Maria and Zsuzsi, but because Zsuzsi is but an infant and a danger to the fleeing couple they must leave her behind to have her transported to them ... Read More
Rating: - I love this movie
A family escapes from Hungray in the early 1960s. They move to America but they have to leave their baby girl Susannah behind. Susannah grows up in Hungray with another family, thinking they are her real parents. When she turns six years old, her grandparents come and take her away to America where her real family is waiting for her. Susannah meets her family, her parents and older sister. She likes American culture, like TV and gum and pretty dresses bought from stores and she likes learning English ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent little film
This film has it all: The Cold war, American family life in the 50s/60s, and the heart breaking emotion of the love of two different families towards the same child. The child grows up very confused in America, and the rest I will not spoil for you. This movie will be enjoyed by females a little more than males... except maybe mature males that can see the tribulations involved because they too have experienced something similar. It's a great movie for the entire family however, and so I recommended ... Read More
Rating: - DREAM VERSUS NOSTALGIA
Hungarian born Eva Gardos wrote and directed AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY, her first movie, at the age of 50. The film is about events of her own life and she dedicated it to her father and mother. I don't have to be a psychologist to assume that Eva Gardos waited her whole life to have an opportunity to express the sufferings hidden in her heart.
What I liked the most about this film is the way the director parallels the American dream lived by the little Zsuzsi's parents and Zsuzsi's nostalgia of the ... Read More