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This TV documentary was the first Hungarian feature length film about Raoul Wallenberg to be broadcast on Hungarian public television. It includes testimonies of Per Anger, Second Secretary at the Swedish Embassy and Margaret Bauer, his translator; interviews with Congressman Steny Hoyer and violinist Isaac Stern; and speeches of students of the University of Jerusalem, participating in a Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship program. Some of the most remarkable parts of the film were shot at the Józsefvárosi Railway Station, which was the departure point for most of the trains carrying Hungarian Jews to...

Director : Tamás Kovári

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 60

Language : Hungarian

Raoul Wallenberg – Prisoner in the Soviet Union

The historian Hans Villius began working with TV-producer Olle Häger at the Sveriges Television (SVT); their very productive collaboration spanned some two decades. During the 1980s and 1990s Häger and Villius produced several popular documentaries, among them Raoul Wallenberg - fånge i Sovjet (Raoul Wallenberg – Prisoner in the Soviet Union), which explores the Swedish diplomat's tragic fate after being abducted by the Soviets immediately following the siege of Budapest.

Director : Olle Häger, Hans Villius

Production Year : 1990

Duration : 55

Dead People are Good People. The Memoirs of a Forensic Pathologist

This documentary film is about Dr. Lóránd Tamáska, a forensic pathologist from Budapest, once called the Paganini of the dissector, who gives an account of the darkest events of past fifty years. Though the film itself is not directly related to Wallenberg, Tamáska makes a statement on the circumstances of his death, which corroborates the fact that the Soviets did everything in their power to suggest that Wallenberg fell victim to the shootings during the siege of Budapest.

Director : János Fuzik

Production Year : 1994

Duration : 55

Language : Hungarian

The Memory of Raoul Wallenberg

Using archival footage and documents, this educational film puts Raoul Wallenberg's story in the larger context of the Holocaust in Europe and especially Hungary. Narrated mainly by the historian László Karsai, a renowned Hungarian Holocaust expert, the film covers a variety of topics including the Anti-Jewish Legislation, the ghettoization and deportation of the Jews, and the rise of the Arrow Cross Party, as well as the interventions of Wallenberg in Budapest and his tragic fate after the Soviets arrested him on January 17, 1945.

Director : András Szitányi

Production Year : 2003

Duration : 30

Language : Hungarian

Raoul and the 30 Monuments

The film exposes the question why it has taken more than 50 years before Raoul Wallenberg was honored with a monument in his own birthplace Stockholm. On August 24, 2001, the monument created by the artist Kirsten Ortwed was inaugurated on Raoul Wallenberg Square at Nybroviken, Stockholm. It also includes footage on memorials and more than 30 monuments dedicated to Wallenberg all over the world.

Director : Peter R. Meyer

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 55

Language : Swedish

Man Alive: Missing Hero Wallenberg

Produced for BBC TV, this documentary film reports on the mystery surrounding the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers and fell into the hands of the Russians at the end of the war.

Director : John Bierman

Production Year : 1980

Duration : 51

Language : English

Raoul Wallenberg - Buried Alive

Examines the role of Raoul Wallenberg in saving Hungarian Jews during World War II, his disappearance after the Russians occupied Budapest, and the reports through the intervening decades that Wallenberg was imprisoned in Russia. Includes testimonies from Wallenberg's associates, his sister, and Jews who survived because of Wallenberg's intervention

Director : David Harel

Production Year : 1983

Duration : 78

Language : English

Dead Men's Secrets – Whatever Happened to Raoul Wallenberg?

Produced for The History Channel, the film exposes the tragic fate of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat posted in Budapest at the height of the Third Reich. Using his diplomatic standing to issue immunity passes he was not authorized to grant, he saved thousands of people from the gas chambers. But he disappeared in 1945, never to be seen again. The documentary seeks to answer important questions: did the Nazis he thwarted for so long kill him? Did he escape death but feel compelled to hide from the evil he had defied? This episode follows the trails uncovered by his family, researchers and governments in the...

Director : Jonathan Martin

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 50

Language : English

Per Anger about Raoul Wallenberg

This amateur video was made by Mrs. Kate Wacz, a Holocaust survivor from Budapest saved by Raoul Wallenberg, on May 16, 1998, on the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. The footage contains the testimony of Per Anger, a former Secretary at the Swedish Legation in Budapest, on his colleague, Raoul Wallenberg and his rescue efforts.

Director : Kate Wacz

Production Year : 1998

Duration : 40

Ramp on History – Wallenberg in Budapest

Filmed in Hungary, this documentary explores the rescue efforts of Raoul Wallenberg during WWII. In the midst of the raging war, the Swedish Legation in Budapest saved the lives of a great number of Jews. Three of them give their accounts of how the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg negotiated with the Nazis about their lives.

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 45 90

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