Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a 1985 NBC television film starring Richard Chamberlain about Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who was instrumental in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.
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Genre | Biographical film |
Based on | novel by Thurston B. Clarke Frederick E. Werbell |
Written by | Gerald Green |
Directed by | Lamont Johnson |
Starring | Richard Chamberlain |
Theme music composer | Ernest Gold |
Country of origin | United States Yugoslavia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Dick Berg |
Producer | Richard Irving |
Production location | Yugoslavia |
Cinematography | Charles Correll |
Editor | Paul LaMastra |
Running time | 200 minutes |
Production companies | Dick Berg-Stonehenge Productions Paramount Television |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | April 8, 1985 |
The film was nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards (winning four) and a Golden Globe Award (for Richard Chamberlain).
Cast
edit- Richard Chamberlain as Raoul Wallenberg
- Alice Krige as Baroness Lisl Kemeny
- Kenneth Colley as Adolf Eichmann
- Melanie Mayron as Sonja Kahn
- Stuart Wilson as Baron Gabor Kemeny
- Bibi Andersson as Maj von Dardel
- David Robb as Per Anger
- Mark Rylance as Nikki Fodor
- Ralph Arliss as Teicholz
- Keve Hjelm as Jacob Wallenberg
- Jimmy Nail as Vilmos
- Olaf Pooley as Tibor Moritz
- Georgia Slowe as Hannah Moritz
- Guy Deghy as Adm. Nikolas Horthy
- Curt Lowens as Dieter Wisleceny
Awards and nominations
editReferences
edit- ^ "Nominees/Winners". IMDb. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ^ "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners". IMDb. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ^ "1986 Artios Awards". Casting Society of America. October 29, 1986. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
- ^ "38th DGA Awards". Directors Guild of America Awards. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
- ^ "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved October 20, 2023.