'68 (film)
'68 is a 1988 drama film directed by Steven Kovacs. The film follows a full year of a Hungarian family living in San Francisco in 1968.
Plot
The father escaped the Soviet invasion of Budapest and now runs a Hungarian restaurant that is not doing well financially. The younger of his two sons is gay and struggling with coming out. His dad disowns him when he finally does. The older son is involved in the counterculture, gets kicked out of college, buys a motorcycle, starts dating a Maoist, and is also disowned by his father. The older son runs afoul of an outlaw motorcycle club; the younger of the two sons gets drafted but is rejected because of his homosexuality. The older one joins his younger brother in a gay rights protest.
Major events of the year, such as the assassination of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, are interspersed throughout the plot and depicted in the film using stock footage.
Wikipedia article: '68 (film) ↗
External links
- Review '68 (film) at the Internet Movie Database
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