Hungarian television film Örök tél (Eternal Winter), directed by Attila Szász, won one of the main prizes last night at the 12th Unruly Unbreakable Cursed International Film Festival in Gdynia.

The chairman of the jury, famous Polish director Lech Majewski, justified the first prize of director Attila Szász on the grounds that the film “speaks of the brutal world in which the women taken to the Donetsk camp in 1944 find themselves, but the emotions born there help them survive.”

Szász‘s Eternal Winter is based on Norbert Köbli’s script and produced by Szupermodern Studio Ltd. The film commemorates the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians deported to the Gulag and Gupvi forced-labor camps and narrates the story of local ethnic German women. 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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Source: Hungary Today
Photo: Eternal Winter/Örök tél