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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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