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"Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg"
1993
Directed by Kjell Grede

A moving and sensitive portrait of internationally known hero, Raoul Wallenberg, a small-scale businessman whose life was transformed after he witnessed bodies being thrown from a train on it's way to Auschwitz. With the support of the Swedish Embassy, he consequently moved to Budapest in late 1944 to help protect Jews from Adolph Eichmann's Sonderkommando. By issuing Swedish passports and brazenly intimidating German officials, he succeeded in helping hundreds of Jews either flee from Budapest or get placed in protective housing. His greatest challenge came in 1945 however, when he saved the lives of some 65,000 Jews in the ghetto by forcing the hand of the German general responsible for their fate. Wallenberg was taken prisoner by the Russian army a month after these events, and never released. Swedish, German and Hungarian with English subtitles. 115 minutes.

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