''El ángel de Budapest'' (''Angel of Budapest'') is a Spanish 2011

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based on the book ''Un español frente al Holocausto'' ("A Spaniard against the Holocaust") written by

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and

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executive director Diego Carcedo. The executive producers are José Manuel Lorenzo, Eduardo Campoy 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 Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

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Plot

The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, 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 Germany death camps. A romantic storyline follows the lovelife of Antal, a Hungarian Jew who falls in love with the daughter of an Arrow Cross official of the Fascist government. Antal slowly turns to the resistance movement to save the couple.

Cast

* Anna Allen as Adela Quijano * Tamás Lengyel as Lajos * George Mendel as Danielson * Manuel de Blas as Miguel Ángel Muguiro * Ana Fernández as Sra. Tourné * Francis Lorenzo as Ángel Sanz Briz * Aldo Sebastianelli as Giorgio Perlasca *Tamás Szabó Kimmel as Antal * Iván Fenyő as

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. In ...

* Áron Őze as

Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ;"Eichmann"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; 19 March 1906 – 1 Ju ...

László Agárdi László () is a Hungarian language, Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. The name has a history of being frequently Anglicisation ...

Miklós Horthy Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the Regent of Hungary, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Kingdom of Hungary Hungary between the World Wars, during the ...

*Kata Gáspár *Sára Herrer *Athina Papadimitriu *Tamás Balikó *János Bán *László Baranyi *László Áron

Nominations

* Nominated - Magnolia Award for Best Television Film or Miniseries, 18th

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(2012)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Angel De Budapest Spanish war drama films Holocaust films Spanish World War II films 2011 television films 2011 films Historical television series Films shot in Budapest Films set in Hungary Cultural depictions of Raoul Wallenberg Cultural depictions of Adolf Eichmann RTVE shows