The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona encore return of the award-winning new film “Eternal Winter,” showing Friday through Wednesday, Aug. 9 through 14, at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Eternal Winter” is the true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp.
In Christmas 1944, Soviet soldiers fighting Nazi-occupied Europe invade Hungary and drag every young ethnic German woman 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 meets fellow prisoner Rajmund, who teaches 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. “Eternal Winter” is the first feature film about the 700,000 Hungarian victims of the Soviet labor camps whose stories remained untold for over 70 years.
After collaborating with Nazi Germany beginning in 1938, the Hungarian army assisted the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
By 1944, with Soviets pushing the Nazis back to Germany, Hungary devolved into a de facto civil war with collaborationist fascists fighting partisans who sided with the Soviets in a brutal battle for the future of the country.
“Eternal Winter” debuted to sold out shows and rave audience reviews at the recent Sedona International Film Festival — where it won the Directors’ Choice Award for Feature Drama — and is returning to Sedona by popular demand.
“Eternal Winter” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Aug. 9 through 14. Showtimes will be 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9 and 10; and 7 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday, Aug. 12 and 14.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. Call 282-1177 for tickets and more information.
Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. SR 89A in West Sedona.
Visit SedonaFilmFestival. org for more information and to order tickets online.
