I don't understand this film because half the film, everyone was speaking Hungarian and I hadn't a clue what they were talking about. I couldn't understand why the movie didn't include the subtitles because I was unable to access a subtitle option with Putlocker. Probably if I was renting this on DVD, then I probably would have the option to use English subtitles. As well as that problem, I didn't really understand the story line because every character was racing around and it gave me a headache a bit. I felt you had to concentrate at one thing after the other and after the other. I seriously needed a breather and that's when I decided to stop watching the movie after watching 50 minutes of it. I am disappointed despite the movie having great reviews even it has a IMDb rating out of 6.9. I think its better if I just give this a 2 because it just didn't impress me enough to think of it as a great movie!

Margit (Nastassia Kinski) and Peter (Tony Goldwyn) live in Hungary during the early fifties. As Peter relates, a good deal of his friends have been sent to prison, for no good reasons, and his publishing business shut down. In addition, Margit experienced a traumatic loss which changed her forever. Therefore, they make plans to escape from communist Budapest and immigrate to America. They plan to take their two daughters along but a last minute, horrendous glitch makes it necessary for them to leave their one year old daughter, Suzanne, behind and in the care of a peasant farm couple in the Hungarian countryside. Climbing under barbed wire and around spotlights, they make their escape with their older daughter. Yet, understandably, when they make it to Los Angeles, Margit and Peter never stop writing letters to government officials, in order to secure the immigration of their little lost girl. Suzanne, meanwhile, loves her adoptive parents and simple home. Yet, when she is six, Suzanne is torn away from the only mother and father she knows and sent to America to meet and live with her blood relatives. After such turmoil for everyone, will happiness follow? This is one great movie that will have you crying at the beginning, the middle, and the end. It is based on a heartbreaking true story and it is certainty that any viewer will be tremendously moved by its happenings. The cast is stupendous, with Kinski and Goldwyn doing a wonderful job as the brave but sorrowful parents. Scarlett Johanssen plays Suzanne as she ages, and she is terrific, but so is the little lady who plays the younger version left behind in Hungary. Then, too, the settings, costumes, cinematography, script and direction are all top notch. In summary, no one who loves motion pictures should really miss this film. It has a story that grabs the viewer by the heart and never, ever lets go.

Like a Hungarian would, I wept all the through the film. Eva Gardos masterfully captured the pain of having to leave your own country, whether as adults or as a child. She crafted a wonderfully paced, written, acted and directed film. If her goal was to create a sense of longing for a bygone home, she hit a home run.I met Eva in Budapest in the late 1990s, when she was editing Andy Vajna's triumphant producing return to Hungary, "A Miniszter félrelép" (aka "Out of Order"). She let me read the screenplay of Hungarian Rhapsody as she was developing it for production. I liked the story, and imagined it coming to life on the screen. Almost a decade later, I finally got a chance to see the film. She stayed true to her story, and delivered an emotionally powerful personal film.I must admit that I am a Hungarian by paternal parentage, and thus very biased. 'Au contraire,' I am also a filmmaker, and can sometimes be critical. However, I can honestly say that Eva has created a film with universal emotional resonance.I truly hope that she continues to make such powerful films.

This is the definition of a Norfolk Library Film. No ones' heard of it. Now really Norfolk Library does have some films that are popular but they also have tons of films I know or care little about. I got this only 'cuz it had Larisa Oleynik in the credtis. What is she doing there? She has like 2 minutes of screen time. Not that this is anything new to films, but I was hoping to actually hear more than 4 sentences from her. Back to the Film...A family wants to leave Hungary 'cuz it's communist. Great Idea but their youngest girl gets left behind. She eventually gets to LA when she's 6 years old but doesn't like it there. By the time she's 15 she hates everyone in her life and wants to go back to the simple world she left beind. This could be really good for a drama, and I'M SURE the real experience was better than the movie. This film was never sure where it wanted to go, starting in Black and White (ala Schindler's List) then switching to color. 99% of the problems that arise are because the mom never tells her daughter about what made Hungary so bad. When the girl does go back, she finds out any ways. What a waste of a plane ticket. PS: That bridge is cool. It's the same picture as on a "Greater Vision" Album called "Far Beyond This Place"