Posted on 03/08/2019 1:36:30 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
On the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism, Hungary Today had the opportunity to interview producer Tamás Lajos about his film Eternal Winter, which commemorates the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians deported to the Gulag and Gupvi forced-labor camps. Since its debut a year ago, the film has won several prestigious awards at various international film festivals.
Q: Could this be an interesting topic for foreigners as well? Do you think viewing the movie would get them interested in this part of Hungary’s history?
A: I think this topic is also a novelty abroad. I feel like, in the United States, for example, the film has had an exciting run; audiences have a very strong interest in it. This can also be seen by the start of the world sales. We just signed a contract with a North American film distributor. In connection with its popularity in Hungary, it’s important to emphasize that nearly 700 thousand people have experienced the horrors of the Gulag and Gupvi camps or other war camps. There’s practically no Hungarian family that hasn’t had a member deported to a Russian camp. I think the modest adaption of this period in history coupled with the lack of similar films, generates viewers, facilitates the spread of the film and increases its popularity.
Q: How many people have seen the movie so far?
A: So far, more than 450,000 people have watched it either on television and internet forums or via download. I hope this number will rise significantly once the film is distributed worldwide.
(Excerpt) Read more at hungarytoday.hu ...
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. - Hungary Today
A holocaust that should be remembered along with the horrific WWII holocaust. Two nightmare events.
Turkey was no slouch in creating it’s own holocaust. Killed 1 million of its neighbors. Even did crucifixions of young women, crosses that ran on and on.
There was Bosnia also. And then that Hutu/Tutsi thing in Africa.
Chinese killed a lot of folks.
Pol Pot..
Boy humans can be a nasty bunch sometimes!!
We saved Western Europe twice and The Great One defeated communism for 100s of millions of people.
A holocaust that should be remembered along with the horrific WWII holocaust. Two nightmare events.
Turkey was no slouch in creating it’s own holocaust. Killed 1 million of its neighbors. Even did crucifixions of young women, crosses that ran on and on.
There was Bosnia also. And then that Hutu/Tutsi thing in Africa.
Chinese killed a lot of folks.
Pol Pot..
Boy humans can be a nasty bunch sometimes!!
We saved Western Europe twice and The Great One defeated communism for 100s of millions of people.
At the time, the only mode of an information flow, other than the state propaganda, was cassette tapes. There was no Internet. Reagan's speech was recorded over and over and passed out like crazy. All through the Soviet Block.
I had a family member (now long deceased) who was a brand new lieutenant in the Hungarian army when the Nazis overran Hungary.
“First ve throw away all our collar brass and put on the Nazi crap. A few veeks later ve were on our vay to the eastern front. I vas wounded and sent home. Then the Russians came and things got worse.” (The family escaped in 1957.)
“I vas born a Hungarian, but I vill die as a proud American Ceetezen.” (And he did.)
Prisoners in Hungary who suffered under NAZIs and Communists said the Communists were even worse.
Anti communist movies are rare but a few exist. Glad there is another.
My dad was from Hungary. He served, as did every man that was able. He never quite got over his belief that socialism would “provide”.
I can PM you a covert recording I made of my Pop during a holiday meal where I got him talking about his youth in Hungary. It’s a sobering picture of life during that time.
Oh, and Pop was made to work the coal mines. Both as a child and as a young man required to serve in the military. He HAD to live in a barracks. Very little food. Only clothes they had were issued to them.
“” “” 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.”” “”
The Germans have just killed 28 million people there. Who else had to mine coal? Locals were still at frontlines.
It is good to see movies coming out that cover more than the One Genocide the Left Wants to be Seen as Caring About.
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