Though SCHINDLER'S LIST drew all the attention, GOOD EVENING, MR. WALLENBERG, released the same year, also dealt with a morally flawed character who feverishly strove against the machineries of the Holocaust. His name was Raoul Wallenberg.
The real Wallenberg's intervention, as an amateur diplomat in Budapest, probably spared as many as 30,000 lives. But when the advancing Red Army entered Budapest in early 1945, suspicious Soviets took Wallenberg (a member of a prominent banking family, and hence "a big capitalist") back to
Moscow as a prisoner. Protests from Western leaders were muted by Cold-War politics, and Wallenberg disappeared. Wallenberg's story had a...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
115 mins