God afton, Herr Wallenberg : en passionshistoria från verkligheten = Good evening Mr. Wallenberg : a passion taken from reality /
This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish businessmen on a rescue miss...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Swedish German Hungarian |
| Language Notes: | In Swedish, German, and Hungarian; with English subtitles. |
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New York, NY :
First Run Features,
1990.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative of Swedish Jewish businessmen on a rescue mission of Hungarian Jews. He distributed Swedish papers ('Wallenberg passports'), protected Jews in 'Wallenberg houses,' internationalized the ghetto to give the 33,000 Jews within it more protections, and saved thousands of Jews from deportation. On January 17, 1945, Wallenberg was taken to Moscow as a Soviet prisoner. He was never released, and his fate has remained a mystery. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed February 01, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (114 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 01:53:38 |