Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man ( Perlasca: Un eroe italiano )

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Perlasca: Un eroe italiano
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
196 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Alberto Negrin

Written By:
Enrico Deaglio
Sandro Petraglia

Actors:
Luca Zingaretti ..... Giorgio Perlasca
Jérôme Anger ..... Farkas ügyvéd
Amanda Sandrelli ..... Magda
Franco Castellano ..... Adam
Marco Bonini ..... Sandor
Lorenzo Lavia ..... Daniel
Elena Arvigo ..... Anna
Christiane Filangieri ..... Eva (as Christiane Filangeri)
György Cserhalmi ..... Bleiber
Jean-François Garreaud ..... Professor (as Jean Francois Garreaud)
Dezsö Garas ..... Rabbi
Palle Granditsky ..... Jacob (as Palle Granditzky)
Alvaro Gradella ..... Ufficiale Szarka
Giuliana Lojodice ..... M.me Tournè
Mathilda May ..... Contessa Eleonora
Zoltán Bezerédy ..... Vajna, nyilas miniszter (as Bezerédi Zoltán)
Ferenc Borbiczky ..... Glückmer (as Ferenc Borbiczki)
Krisztina Bíró ..... Nurse
Olivér Csendes ..... Pécsi
Imre Csuja ..... corrupt SS officer
Zsanett Czetõ ..... Béni's sister
Ádám Czetõ ..... Béni
Zoltán Dózsa
Tibor Felszeghy
Anna Györgyi
Miklós Gádor
István Göz ..... István Dobris
Balázs Illés
Bence Kardos
Péter Kertész ..... Spanish Embassy Employee - Older
Marcell Kiss
Ron Klein
István Kolos ..... Magda férje
Olga Koós
András Laczó ..... Singer at the ball
László Mátray ..... (as Mátrai László)
Giorgio Perlasca ..... Himself (archive footage)
Tamás Puskás ..... Adolf Eichman
Kornél Pusztaszeri ..... Gyula
Sándor Román
Péter Rudolf ..... Sárosi
Ádám Schnell ..... Miklós
György Simon ..... Retired jewish colonel
György Somhegyi
Károly Spáh ..... Ferenc
András Stohl ..... Nagy
Gyözö Szabó ..... Rapist
Klaudia Szabó
László Szacsvay ..... László (as László Szacsvai)
Dóra Szelõczey
András Szurdi
Gábor Sárosi
Géza Tordy ..... Sanz Briz
Márta Téli
Attila Tóth ..... Young nyilas soldier
Titanilla Varga ..... Lili
Eszter Ónodi ..... Lina
Gábor Reviczky ..... Nyilas General Officer (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Luca Zingaretti stars in this made-for-TV Italian-language drama which brings to life the true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian who risked his life to save Jews in Second World War Hungary. Though Perlasca (Zingaretti) was initially a supporter of Italian fascism and fought for Mussolini in East Africa during the Italo-Abyssinian War, he became increasingly disenchanted with the doctrine as it merged with Hitler's anti-Semitic vision. In 1944, while based in Budapest for the purposes of business, Perlasca was confronted directly with the horror of the Holocaust and, unlike so many others, didn't turn a blind eye but did whatever he could to save lives.

It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation. When the Nazi occupied Hungary, in 1944, instead to leave (Italy had already surrendered to the Allies) he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing name into Jorge Perlasca. He starts working as a diplomat here. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, is removed, Perlasca immediately substitutes him, like if he was officially appointed from Spanish authorities. All the Nazi, the Hungarian authorities believe him. In his new fake assignment, he starts immediately to hide, shield and feed a lot of Jews (thousands!) issuing Spanish (fake of course) safe conducts for the Jews of Sephardic origin. He is in contact with another Hero of that time, Raoul Wallenberg. The two, together with other volunteers, running incredible risks had saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from a tragic death. Incredibly Perlasca succeeded to save two boys directly from the hands of Adolf Eichmann at the train station. This hero, after the war, was completely forgotten, and his story comes out just in the 1980s because some of the Hungarian Jews wanted to meet him again.

This film is based on the true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman who passed himself off as the Spanish Consul in Budapest, Hungary, in an effort to save more than 5,000 Jews from Nazi extermination near the end of World War II.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 01 October, 2013.

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