ETERNAL WINTER (Orok Tel) is the second war related Hungarian movie i watched after GLOOMY SUNDAY (1999). Both gave me tears after watching. Movie shows the true history, in 1944-45 approximately 700,000 Hungarian men & women were taken to forced labour by the orders of Stalin, 300,000 of them never returned home. A MUST WATCH
7.4Plot summary
Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labor camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Irén, one of the Hungarian women, meets Rajmund who decides to teach her how to survive. While she is determined to return home to her little daughter and family, history and fate have a different plan: Irén and Rajmund fall in love.
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Amazing movie
This movie is very important to watch for everyone to know more about history.Its heartbreaking to watch it for me as I am a Schwaben Hungarian and I knew people who survived these camps .My neighbour use to tell me a lot about it and trust me this movie is a very soft version of the ugly truth.Incredible acting.However I wanted to see more about the work camp and see more of the truth how people were being treated still all I can say is amazing performances and beautiful movie!
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It's called Gulag on DVD in the U.K.
Extraordinary and good if rather chilling film. Beautifully acted and it's one of those films you must stick with to get the real benefit. The last half and hour is compelling.