''Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg'' ( sv, God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten) is a 1990 film about Swedish
World War II diplomat
Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945)He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed. Some reports claim he was alive years later. 31 J ...
, who was instrumental in saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from
the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...
. He is played by
Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård (, ; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier appearing in ''Breaking the Waves'' (1996), ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000), ''Dogville'' (2007), ''Melancholia'' (201 ...
.
The film won four awards at the
26th Guldbagge Awards:
Best Film (Katinka Faragó),
Best Direction (
Kjell Grede),
Best Screenplay (Kjell Grede), and Best Cinematography (Esa Vuorinen).
It was also entered into the
41st Berlin International Film Festival
The 41st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1991. The festival opened with ''Uranus'' by Claude Berri. The Golden Bear was awarded to Italian film '' La casa del sorriso'' directed by Marco Ferreri. The ret ...
.
The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Cast
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Stellan Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård (, ; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier appearing in ''Breaking the Waves'' (1996), ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000), ''Dogville'' (2007), ''Melancholia'' (201 ...
as Raoul Wallenberg
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Katharina Thalbach as Mária
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Károly Eperjes as László Szamosi
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Miklós Székely B. as Ferenc Moser
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Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson (; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Life and career ...
as Rabbi
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Franciszek Pieczka as Papa
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Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen (; born 16 May 1948) is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including ''The Interpreter'' and '' Revelations''. He has also appeared as the mys ...
as Officer at Watteau
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Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent.
Early life
Desny was born in Peking, China.
Career
Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acte ...
as General Schmidthuber (a portrayal of real-life
Pál Szalai
Pál Szalai (September 3, 1915 – January 16, 1994) also spelled Pál Szalay and later anglicized as Paul Sterling was a high-ranking Hungarian police officer and reinstated member of the Arrow Cross Party after 1944. In 1945, together with ...
)
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Géza Balkay as
Gábor Vajna
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Percy Brandt
Percy Brandt (7 November 1922 – 4 December 2005) was a Swedish film and television actor.
Brandt was born in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. His father, Erik Brandt, was a Swede of German and Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from ...
as Swedish Ambassador
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Tamás Jordán
Tamás Jordán (born 15 January 1943) is a Hungarian actor. Jordán appeared in more than ninety films since 1969.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1943 births
Living people
Hungarian male film actors
20th-centur ...
as member of the
Jewish Council
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Andor Lukáts as Father at the train
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Gábor Reviczky
Gábor Reviczky (born March 28, 1949 in Tatabánya) is a Hungarian actor.
Selected filmography
* 1985 '' The Red Countess''
* 1985 ''Mata Hari''
* 1990 '' Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg''
* 1991 '' Paths of Death and Angels''
* 1992 '' The Summer ...
as Officer at the Gate
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László Soós as