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The real Sonnenschein building

posted 14 years ago by romanjazzman
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I was walking with my wife today along Bokreta street here in Budapest - a path I walk daily on my way to work - and, for the first time, looked up at the renewed building on the corner with Ferenc square.

The building always looked vaguely familiar, but I never really bothered examining it closely. Only today, after a year of walking along this street every day, did I realise that the name "Emmanuel Sonnenschein - 1870 - Liqueur" is stenciled in huge charachters at the top of the building!

I've been on the Trivia section for the film, on the Wikipedia page for it, and googled "Emmanuel Sonnenschein", but I cannot find any information as to whether Emmanuel Sonnenschein really existed, or whether the building was made like this as a tribute to the movie (the renewal work on the building was completed about 1 or 2 years ago).

Can anyone give me any more info? By the way, if you're Hungarian, please reply in English, as my Hungarian is not very good!

(I'll make a photograph of the facade of the building in the next few days and link to it)

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[–] PeterSouth 14 years ago

The engraving can be seen in the film aswell, so either he really did exist or the filmmakers simply put great effort into details.

It is explained during the end credits of the film that the characters are fictional, but loosely based on real characters. So it's possible that there was a Sonnenschein and a tonic!

Now you've made me curious! I'll try to find that building next time I'm in Budapest :-)

[–] romanjazzman 11 years ago

Never got around to photographing it myself, but here is a picture someone else posted:

https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/30234255

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[–] sukhjinderdeol 9 years ago

The filmmakers engraved "EMMANUEL SONNENSCHEIN & TSA LIQUEUR" on the building specially for this film and after filming, all the building painting and all other decorations including this engraving were left as it is, so that they are visible to this day!

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