A father clings to 1968 Budapest while his sons live in 1988 San Francisco — someone's gonna crack.
A Hungarian immigrant adjusts to life in California, as his sons venture off into their own adult lives, which often clash with his old world ideas.
Acting
Sándor Técsy's Zoltan — gruff, heartbreaking, impossible to hate.
Writing
Autobiographical script captures specific Hungarian-American tension rarely seen on screen.
Director
Steven Kovacs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Steven Kovacs based the film on his own Hungarian émigré father; the 1968 title references both the Prague Spring and his family's departure year.
Shot during the AIDS crisis but released before widespread queer cinema distribution, it played festivals then vanished — a lost snapshot of pre-marriage-equality family drama.
US
