''Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg'' () 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. In ...

, who was instrumental in saving the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from

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. He is played by

Stellan Skarsgård Stellan John 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'' (2003), ''Melancholia' ...

. 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 (film), Uranus'' by Claude Berri. The Golden Bear was awarded to Italian film ''The House of Smiles'' directed by Marco F ...

. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film 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 theater at the Berliner Ensemble and at the olksbühne Berlin and was an actress in the film ''Th ...

as Mária * Károly Eperjes as László Szamosi * Miklós Székely B. as Ferenc Moser * Erland Josephson 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 made the transition to English language projects, including '' The Interpreter'' and '' Revelations''. He has also appeared as the mysterious vill ...

as Officer at Watteau *

Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitsky; , 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a French actor of Russian Chinese origin. He had a lengthy career in French and German cinema, appearing in over 200 film and television roles over 50 year ...

as General Schmidthuber (a portrayal of real-life Pál Szalai) * Géza Balkay as Gábor Vajna * Percy Brandt as Swedish Ambassador * Tamás Jordán as member of the

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* Andor Lukáts as Father at the train * Gábor Reviczky as Officer at the Gate * László Soós as

Adolf Eichmann Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ;"Eichmann"
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*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 Swedish-language biographical films {{bio-film-stub

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