''El ángel de Budapest'' (''Angel of Budapest'') is a Spanish 2011
World War II
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Holocaust
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television film
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based on the book ''Un español frente al Holocausto'' ("A Spaniard against the Holocaust") written by
journalist
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and
radio
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executive director
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The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...
Diego Carcedo
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Et ...
Eduardo Campoy
Eduardo Campoy Sanz-Orrio (born 21 September 1955) is a Spanish film producer. He has also worked as director.
Life and career
Eduardo Campoy Sanz-Orrio was born in León on 21 September 1955. He co-helmed ''Copia cero'' in 1981 in his director ...
and István Major, the first two had collaborated on the spiritual film '' Sin noticias de Dios'' (2001). The film was shot between 9 November 2010 and 23 December 2010 in
Budapest
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Hungary
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Plot
The plot focuses on
Ángel Sanz Briz
Ángel Sanz Briz (28 September 1910 – 11 June 1980) was a Spanish diplomat who served under Francoist Spain during World War II. He saved the lives of some five thousand Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. Sanz Briz is sometimes refe ...
, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II. Operating until early 1944 in Budapest, he helped to save the lives of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. He issued them protective papers and lodged them in Spanish safe houses, covered by the embassy's sovereignty. At that time, the Hungarian government was persecuting and deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.
A romantic storyline follows the lovelife of Antal, a Hungarian Jew who falls in love with the daughter of an
Arrow Cross
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official of the Fascist government. Antal slowly turns to the resistance movement to save the couple.
Manuel de Blas
Manuel de Blas Muñoz (born 12 April 1941) is a Spanish film, television, and stage actor.
Biography
Manuel de Blas was born in Badajoz in 1941. He spent his childhood in Córdoba and subsequently moved to Madrid to study political science. ...
as Miguel Ángel Muguiro
* Ana Fernández as Sra. Tourné
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Francis Lorenzo
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*Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome
*Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
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*Rural Mu ...
as
Ángel Sanz Briz
Ángel Sanz Briz (28 September 1910 – 11 June 1980) was a Spanish diplomat who served under Francoist Spain during World War II. He saved the lives of some five thousand Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. Sanz Briz is sometimes refe ...
Iván Fenyő
Iván Fenyő (born 15 June 1979) is a Hungarian actor.
He made his studies at the University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest.
Fenyő made his feature film debut as an American Marine in '' Jarhead'', directed by Sam Mendes. Although ...
as
Raoul Wallenberg
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Miklós Horthy
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya ( hu, Vitéz nagybányai Horthy Miklós; ; English: Nicholas Horthy; german: Nikolaus Horthy Ritter von Nagybánya; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957), was a Hungarian admiral and dictator who served as the regent ...
Magnolia Award for Best Television Film or Miniseries The Magnolia Award for Best Television Film (Chinese:白玉兰奖最佳电视电影) is the one of main categories of the Shanghai Television Festival
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, 18th
Shanghai Television Festival
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