Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

Cast

Stellan Skarsgård

as Raoul Wallenberg

Katharina Thalbach

as Marja

Károly Eperjes

as Szamosi

Erland Josephson

as The Rabbi

Székely B. Miklós

as Ferenc Moser

Jesper Christensen

as Offizier

Ivan Desny

as Gerhard Schmidhuber

Franciszek Pieczka

as Papa

Géza Balkay

as Vajna

Percy Brandt

as Swedish Ambassador

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