Original title
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Genre
TV Drama
Directed by
Lamont Johnson
Written by
Thurston B. Clarke
Gerald Green
Frederick E. Werbell
Country
USA/Yugoslavia 1985
Running time
ca. 200 min
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 Summary
Raoul Wallenberg is the son 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 rescue of over 120,000 Hungarian Jews from right under the nose of Nazi Colonel Adolf Eichmann, before he subsequently disappeared behind Russian lines, never again to be seen.
Marta - Lena Olin
Lena only appears in an early scene of the film, the celebration of Walpurgis Night with a bonfire at the Wallenberg Country Estate, where Wallenberg misbehaves by imitating Hitler. She plays Wallenberg's girlfriend, sadly without a single line of dialogue.
Main Cast
Richard Chamberlain
Alice Krige
Kenneth Colley
Melanie Mayron
Stuart Wilson
Bibi Andersson
Lena Olin
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Raoul Wallenberg
Baroness Liesl Kemeny
Adolf Eichmann
Sonja Kahn
Baron Gabor Kemeny
Maj. von Dardel
Marta
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Trivia
Richard Chamberlain was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award nomination. Emmys went to director Lamont Johnson, costumer Tommy Welsh, film editor Paul LaMastra and sound editor Jeff Clark. Nominations, in addition to Chamberlain's, went to the film itself as Outstanding Drama and to writer Gerald Green, photographer Charles Correll and sound mixer Robin Gregory.
The production won a Christopher Award as one of the Outstanding Television Movies of 1985.
Background Info
IMDb Movie Info
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The Lena Olin Forum
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
