Wallenberg: A Hero's Story - Complete Series ( Wallenberg - A Hero's Story )

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story - Complete Series (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Wallenberg - A Hero's Story
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
183 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )
Yugoslavia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Lamont Johnson

Written By:
Thurston B. Clarke
Gerald Green

Actors:
Richard Chamberlain ..... Raoul Wallenberg
Alice Krige ..... Baroness Lisl Kemeny
Kenneth Colley ..... Adolph Eichmann
Melanie Mayron ..... Sonja Kahn
Stuart Wilson ..... Baron Gabor Kemeny
Bibi Andersson ..... Maj. von Dardel
David Robb ..... Per Anger
Mark Rylance ..... Nikki Fodor
Ralph Arliss ..... Teicholz
Keve Hjelm ..... Jacob Wallenberg
Jimmy Nail ..... Vilmos
Olaf Pooley ..... Tibor Moritz
Georgia Slowe ..... Hannah Moritz
Guy Deghy ..... Adm. Nikolas Horthy
Curt Lowens ..... Dieter Wisleceny

Synopsis:

Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian 'Aryan,' Wallenberg despises the anti-semitism of the Hitler regime. Not content with merely sitting back and viewing with alarm, Wallenberg vows to help as many Jewish victims of the Nazis as possible. Employed as a diplomat at the Swedish embassy in Budapest during World War II, Wallenberg is responsible for the escape of over 100,000 Hungarian Jews, thereby earning the enmity Nazi functionary Adolph Eichmann (played with the fury of a rabid animal by Kenneth Colley). Alas, Wallenberg himself falls victim to a 'purge' of another variety at the end of the war, when he is arrested by the Russians and subsequently vanishes from the face of the Earth. Expensively lensed in England and Europe, Wallenberg: A Hero's Story was originally telecast in two parts on April 8 and 9, 1985.

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 01 March, 2020.

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