''Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg'' ( sv, God afton, Herr Wallenberg – En Passionshistoria från verkligheten) is a 1990 film about Swedish

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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

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. 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:

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(Katinka Faragó), Best Direction ( Kjell Grede), Best Screenplay (Kjell Grede), and Best Cinematography (Esa Vuorinen). It was also entered into the

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. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the

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at the

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, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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as Raoul Wallenberg *

Katharina Thalbach Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The T ...

as Mária * Károly Eperjes as László Szamosi * Miklós Székely B. as Ferenc Moser *

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 *

Franciszek Pieczka Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. A graduate of the National Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1954), he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best ...

as Papa *

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 my ...

as Officer at Watteau * Ivan Desny 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 ...

) * Géza Balkay as

Gábor Vajna Gábor Vajna (4 November 1891 – 12 March 1946) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of the Interior from 1944 to 1945. Early life Vajna was born into a Transylvanian Calvinist family in Kézdivásárhely (today Târgu Secu ...

* Percy Brandt as Swedish Ambassador *

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 * 1943 births Living people Hungarian male film actors 20th-centur ...

as member of the

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Andor Lukáts Andor may refer to: * ''Andor'' (TV series), a television series in the ''Star Wars'' universe **Cassian Andor, the titular character * Andor (''Wheel of Time''), a country in Robert Jordan's ''The Wheel of Time'' novels * Andor Technology, a ...

as Father at the train *

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 G ...

as Officer at the Gate * László Soós as Adolf Eichmann *Franciska Györy as Júlia *Zsuzsa Szabó as Lilith *László Csákányi as Gimpel *István Mészáros as Pál

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* * * * 1990 films 1990s Swedish-language films Swedish biographical films Holocaust films Cultural depictions of Raoul Wallenberg Cultural depictions of Adolf Eichmann Films shot in Hungary Films directed by Kjell Grede Best Film Guldbagge Award winners Films whose director won the Best Director Guldbagge Award 1990s biographical films 1990s Swedish films {{bio-film-stub

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