Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Director: Lamont Johnson Cast: Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
, Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson
, Alice Krige
Alice Krige
, Melanie Mayron
Melanie Mayron
Lamont Johnson
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Director: Lamont Johnson Cast: Richard Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain
, Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson
, Alice Krige
Alice Krige
, Melanie Mayron
Melanie Mayron
Lamont Johnson

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Overview

Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Wallenberg despises the anti-semitism of the Hitler regime. Not content with merely sitting back and viewing with alarm, Wallenberg vows to help as many Jewish victims of the Nazis as possible. Employed as a diplomat at the Swedish embassy in Budapest during World War II, Wallenberg is responsible for the escape of over 100,000 Hungarian Jews, thereby earning the enmity Nazi functionary Adolph Eichmann (played with the fury of a rabid animal by Kenneth Colley). Alas, Wallenberg himself falls victim to a "purge" of another variety at the end of the war, when he is arrested by the Russians and subsequently vanishes from the face of the Earth. Expensively lensed in England and Europe, Wallenberg: A Hero's Story was originally telecast in two parts on April 8 and 9, 1985.

Product Details

Release Date: 04/05/2011
UPC: 0097361437248
Original Release: 1985
Rating: NR
Source: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 3:08:00
Sales rank: 22,525

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Richard Chamberlain Raoul Wallenberg
Bibi Andersson Maj von Dardel
Alice Krige Baroness Lisl Kemeny
Melanie Mayron Sonja Kahn
Kenneth Colley Actor
Guy Deghy Actor
Lena Olin Actor
Stuart Wilson Actor
Ernest Gold Composer

Technical Credits
Lamont Johnson Director
Dick Berg Executive Producer
Richard Irving Producer
Gerald Green Screenwriter
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