Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Genre	Biographical film
Based on	Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg 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 (1985-04-08)

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.

The film was nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards (winning four) and a Golden Globe Award (for Richard Chamberlain).

Cast

• 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 Major 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 Langfelder
• Olaf Pooley as Tibor Moritz
• Georgia Slowe as Hannah Moritz
• Guy Deghy as Admiral Nikolas Horthy
• Curt Lowens as Dieter Wisleceny
• Bruce Purchase as Rabbi Mendel
• Relja Bašić as Colonel László Ferenczy
• Peter Capell as Kalman Lauer
• Tom Ormeny as Captain Bator
• Aubrey Morris as Colonel Ferenc Szálasi
• Thomas Hellberg as Danielsson
• Ferdy Mayne as Rabbi Preiss
• Don Fellows as Olsen
• Peter Karsten as Von Fremd
• Werner Pochath as 1st SS Sergeant
• Vili Matula as 2nd SS Sergeant
• Lena Olin as Marta
• Charles Brauer as Generalmajor Schmidthuber
• Venco Kapural as Rotha
• Per Anger as narrator
• Josipa Lisac as singer

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
1985	Golden Reel Awards	Best Sound Editing – Television Movies and Specials (including Mini-Series) – Music	Jeff Clark, Paul Timothy Carden, Nicholas Eliopoulos, Jeff Koford, Donald J. Malouf, Richard Raderman, Greg Stacy, Dan Thomas, James Troutman, Mike Virnig, Tally Paulos, and John La Salandra	Won	[1]
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special	Dick Berg, Richard Irving, Lamont Johnson, and Phillip Levitan	Nominated	[2]
		Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special	Richard Chamberlain	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special	Lamont Johnson	Won
		Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special	Gerald Green	Nominated
		Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special	Charles Correll	Nominated
		Outstanding Achievement in Costuming	Thomas Welsh, Bob E. Horn, and Marko Cerovac	Won
		Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special	Paul LaMastra	Won
		Outstanding Film Sound Editing for a Limited Series or a Special	Jeff Clark, Paul Timothy Carden, Nicholas Eliopoulos, Jeff Koford, Donald J. Malouf, Richard Raderman, Greg Stacy, Dan Thomas, James Troutman, Mike Virnig, Tally Paulos, and John La Salandra	Won
		Outstanding Film Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or a Special	Robin Gregory, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe, and Terry Porter	Nominated
	Television Critics Association Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Specials		Nominated
1986	American Cinema Editors Awards	Best Edited Episode for a Television Mini-Series	Paul LaMastra (for "Part I")	Nominated	[3]
			Paul LaMastra (for "Part II")	Won
	Artios Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Mini-Series Casting	Eleanor Cooke	Nominated	[4]
	Directors Guild of America Awards	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Specials	Lamont Johnson	Nominated	[5]
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	Richard Chamberlain	Nominated	[6]

References

1. "Nominees/Winners". IMDb . Retrieved April 3, 2019.
2. "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved October 20, 2023.
3. "Nominees/Winners". IMDb . Retrieved April 3, 2019.
4. "1986 Artios Awards". Casting Society of America. October 29, 1986. Archived from the original on July 15, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
5. "38th DGA Awards". Directors Guild of America Awards . Retrieved October 20, 2023.
6. "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story". Golden Globe Awards . Retrieved October 20, 2023.

External links

• Wallenberg: A Hero's Story at IMDb
• Wallenberg: A Hero's Story at the TCM Movie Database