Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
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Actor: Erland Josephson, Károly Eperjes, Katharina Thalbach, Miklós Székely B., Stellan SkarsgårdBrand: First RUN Features
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
DVD Reviews of Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
DVD Review: Another reason how film can be important
Summary: 4 Stars
Why do we watch films? Initially in the early days it was part escapism, part to be wowed, part to see what one couldn't realistically travel to see. Nowadays, it is all too often simply for entertainment. Mind you, all films are not unworthy of watching, but far too few are "moving" in an emotional sense. "Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg" is one such film that certainly is "worthy of watching" (to utilize Akira Kurosawa's phrase). Maybe you are one who goes to the cinema to kill time, see what's being talked about and such, and/or who rents/buys DVDs for similar reasons. If so, all the power to you. I'm not a killjoy, after all; but with television providing the same fare, why not (at least sometimes) seek something different from the amazing breadth of motion pictures that is available to one? This film about Mr. Wallenberg is instructive herein. In it we are almost literally transported to World War Two Budapest (without seeing much of that beautiful city actually being beside the point). Stalin was right: a million deaths is a statistic. It is something almost impossible to fathom without great effort. But an individual's death can be understood, in contradistinction. That's why it's helpful thinking of the Holocaust not as a 6 million death event; but rather as the brutal murder of single family (of 2, 3, 5, 7 people) in cold blood---multiplied by a factor of 1, 2, or 3 million (depending on what you visualize a family unit's size to be). That's why this film is relevent. In it we see individuals whose lives hang in the balance as the actor portraying the real-life Swedish hero, Raoul Wallenberg, goes about trying to protect those at the mercy of Fascist forces. No, this film isn't epic in its particulars---we don't see a lot of events and such---but we do see several events of a personal nature. Some may call that boring; but it is, instead, more harrowing & educational, especially if one can make that leap and imagine what one is seeing is, in fact, being played out exponentially, simultaniously. I can't help but think of the film Saving Private Ryan" in this context; for in that film we barely knew who Tom Hanks was supposed to be fighting against. Yes, it was the Germans, but Hitler and the Nazi totalitarian state didn't seem to figure into the equation that much; being eclipsed by the story of some soldiers fighting simply to reach---& "save" (for that soldier's family) one private by the name of Ryan. Sure, it's a well made film and all that, but it hardly speaks volumes in comparison to a film such as "Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg." Do view it, if you get the opportunity to do so. Do also see "The Wannsee Conference," a German film about a meeting of Nazi leadership concerning Jews in Europe. And read "Babi Yar," a great book about life in Ukraine as the Nazis invade and occupy it---that is, if you have an intellectual interest about such things. If so, maybe my "So You'd like to Viscerally Experience World War Two" Amazon list might be of interest to you for more suggestions (accessible by clicking on my name and thence onto my "So You'd Like to" lists.) Cheers!
Description of Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
On Schindler's List there were hundreds of names.On Raoul Wallenberg's there were tens of thousands.
"A film of epic ambitions" (The New York Times), Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. It is a moving and sensitive portrait of internationally known hero, Raoul Wallenberg, a small-scale businessman whose life was transformed after he witnessed bodies being thrown from a train on its way to Auschwitz.
International film star Stellan Skarsgård (Aberdeen, Dancer in the Dark, Good Will Hunting, Amistad, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October) "is merely perfect" (New York Post) as Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy who moved to Budapest, Hungary in 1944 to help Jews escape Adolph Eichmann's deadly path. Wallenberg saved over 60,000 people in Budapest's Jewish ghetto by helping them escape Hungary with Swedish papers ("Wallenberg passports"), or getting them placed in protective housing. His greatest challenge came in 1945, when he saved the lives of some 65,000 Jews in the ghetto by forcing the hand of the German general responsible for their fate. On January 17, 1945, Wallenberg was taken to Moscow as a Soviet prisoner. He was never released, and his fate has remained a mystery.
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