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The Mission of Raoul Wallenberg

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This Soviet documentary attempts at clarifying the story of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who, while he was stationed in Nazi-occupied Hungary late in 1944, arranged for almost 100,000 Jews to find safety. When the Soviet army liberated Hungary, Wallenberg was arrested and taken away. The details of what happened to him after that are shrouded in mystery, though he is generally believed to have perished in a Soviet prison in 1947. The film explores many mysteries surrounding his arrest and disappearance, including claims that Leonid Brezhnev may have been involved in it, but it provides few answers.