Crossing Europe

Eternal Winter

1 hr. 50 min. | Drama, Romance, History | N-16

"I love you. I just hope it doesn't kill me."

In winter of 1944 Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and transport every young woman of German origin to a Soviet labour camp. 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.

Attila Szászas

Attila Szászas

Attila Szász graduated at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. He started out as a film critic, and went on to writing screenplays and directing commercials in 2002. Attila Szász has directed the short film Now You See Me, Now You Don't (2005) and three feature-length movies The Ambassador to Bern (2014), Demimonde (2015) and Eternal Winter (2018).
Languages
Hungarian, Russian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Örök tél
Produced
2018: Hungary

Film information

Director
Attila Szászas
Producers
Ábel Köves, Tamás Lajos
Screenplay
Norbert Köbli, Attila Szász
Music
Gergely Parádi
Cinematography
András Nagy
Cast
Marina Gera, Sándor Csányi, Laura Döbrösi
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