Posted on 11/30/2018 9:36:32 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Attila Szász’s new film Eternal Winter, based on Norbert Köbli’s script, bagged another prestigious honor last week when it took home the award for Best Drama at the 33rd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). The film previously won the award for Best European Movie of the Year in Berlin and Szász was chosen to receive the award for Best Director at the 42nd Montreal World Film Festival.
Following the Soviet occupation of Hungary in 1944, local, Ethnic German women are taken from their small village, loaded into cattle wagons and forced to work in coal mines under inhuman conditions at a Ukrainian labor camp. Here, Irén meets fellow prisoner Rajmund who decides to teach her how to survive. While she is determined to return home to her daughter and family, history and fate have a different plan: Irén and Rajmund fall in love. Eternal Winter is based on true events and is the first Hungarian feature film about the 700,000 Hungarian victims of the Soviet labor camps whose stories have remained untold for over 70 years.
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I’m about half way through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”.
It’s changing the way I look at the human soul, and my thankfulness has swelled for the blessings that have come my way. God Bless America!
About 30 years ago I read half of the Gulag. I couldn’t go any further. Once it gets started, there is no bottom to human depravity.
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