This Swedish feature film chronicles the last days
of the war in Budapest. The Soviet noose is tightening around the city, yet
the unrelenting mass murder of Jews continues. Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy, was sent at the initiative
of Swedish Jewish businessmen on a rescue mission of Hungarian Jews. He distributed
Swedish papers ("Wallenberg passports"), protected Jews in "Wallenberg
houses," internationalized the ghetto to give the 33,000 Jews within it
more protections, and saved thousands of Jews from deportation. On January 17,
1945, Wallenberg was taken to Moscow as a Soviet prisoner. He was never released,
and his fate has remained a mystery.
Starring Stellan Skarsgard.
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! Like Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List." 
