Film Portrayal
In 2009, the New York Film Festival prémièred Lynne Sachs's The Last Happy Day, an experimental retelling of Lenard's life story from the intimate perspective of his distant cousin turned filmmaker. The film features unpublished letters from 1940's-1970's written by Lenard to his relatives in the United States, as well as interviews and archival photos. A year after the film's début, the Hungarian Quarterly published an essay by Sachs along with some of Lenard's letters.
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