The Rekai Brothers In 1948, after declining a request to join the Communist Party, two young and ambitious medical doctors decided to leave communist Hungary with their families in search of a better life. Their original plan to work in India or Pakistan fell through due to the bureaucracy.  The Rekai brothers and their families spent the next year and a half in Paris dealing with missed opportunities and struggles finding work.  The brothers’ and their families finally obtained entry visa’s into Canada through the help of a Journalist friend who they previously met in Hungary. The brothers arrived to Canada in the early 1950s and moved from Montreal to Toronto to attend physician’s college because their medical degrees were not acknowledged at that time.  During this time both doctors had to accept a position as personal caretakers, one of them in London, the other in Toronto. After a couple of year when their degrees were acknowledged, they open private medical praxis. The modest medical office was located on St Clair Avenue. Over the course of the years, Toronto experienced an immigration boom.  Many of the immigrants (Italian, German, Greek, Chinese, Hungarian), did not speak English or very little. Unfortunately, the only language spoken at hospitals at that time was English, making communication a serious problem when these new Canadian’s were ill. In 1958 they opened a small private hospital that had 30 beds and serviced patients in 8 different languages. This is the time when Canadian multiculturalism has begun. (Prison & Trudeau). Their small private hospital represented multiculturalism in the health sector.   The hospital got the attention of the government and assisted them to build Central Hospital that had 170 beds and serviced patients in 24 languages. Even the meals as part of the service were tailored to the various ethnic groups. The two Rekai brothers became the directors. The Central Hospital was a well equipped institution and operated for many years.  However, In March, 1997, under the ’Health Services Restructuring Commission’ The Harris government merged Wellesley-Central, transferring ownership to St. Michaels’. To commemorate the achievements of the Rekai Brothers’ and what they gave to the community, the governments following the Harris government opened two long term care facilities in Toronto, including the Rekai Centre. Paul Rekai and John Rekai, Kathy Rekai (wife of Paul Rekai) and her son-in-law all received the Order of Canada.  The Rekai family is one of a very few (if not the only) families where four members received the Order of Canada. There are two simultaneous time lines in the movie. One is a chronological; the other is retrospective memory, through personal interviews with former colleagues, doctors, nurses, staff and family members who tell us their stories of the Rekai brothers, describing their personal characters. My goal was to honour these two exceptional men and to preserve their legacy. They were immigrants who were always grateful for the opportunity they were given by their new home country that can be very proud of them. William Kosaras Writer and Producer, Toronto Languages: Hungarian and English