Hungarian Actress Wins Emmy Award

Hungarian actress Marina Gera has won the International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for her role as Irén in the movie 'Örök Tél' (Eternal Winter). She received the recognition at Awards Gala in New York City this Monday.

Directed by Attila Szász, the movie that received numerous other awards in the past two years takes place around Christmas time in 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.

Founded in 1969, The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a non-profit, membership organization, based in New York City, comprised of leading entertainment figures across all sectors of the television industry, from over sixty countries. The Academy's mission is to recognize excellence in television programming produced outside of the United States, and it presents the International Emmy® Award to programs in twenty categories.