RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN IN
WALLENBERG:
A HERO'S STORY 2/10
© 2001. Okihei Enterprise, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Tribute to Richard Chamberlain

 

 
Directed by 
Lamont Johnson 

Writing credits 

 Frederick E. Werbell....book 
Thurston B. Clarke...book
Gerald Green....screen play

Per Anger ....  Narrator 

Cast 
Richard Chamberlain ....  Raoul Wallenberg 
Alice Krige ....  Baroness Liesl Kemeny 
Kenneth Colley ....  Adolph Eichmann 
Melanie Mayron ....  Sonja Kahn 
Stuart Wilson  ....  Baron Gabor Kemeny 
Bibi Andersson ....  Major von Dardel 
David Robb ....  Per Anger 
Mark Rylance ....  Nikki Fodor 
Ralph Arliss ....  Teicholz 
Keve Hjelm ....  Jacob Wallenberg 
Jimmy Nail ....  Vilmos 
Olaf Pooley ....  Tibor Moritz 
Georgia Slowe ....  Hannah Moritz 
Guy Deghy ....  Admiral Nikolas Horthy 
Curt Lowens ....  Wisleceny, Dieter 
Bruce Purchase ....  Rabbi Mandel 
Relja Basic ....  Colonel Laszlo Ferenczy 
Peter Capell ....  Kalman Lauer 
Tom Ormeny ....  Captain Bator 
Aubrey Morris ....  Colonel Ferencz Szalasi 
Thomas Hellberg ....  Danielsson 
Ferdy Mayne ....  Rabbi Preiss 
Don Fellows ....  Olsen 
Peter Carsten ....  Von Fremd (as Peter Karsten) 
Werner Pochath ....  1st SS Sergeant 
Vili Matula ....  2nd SS Sergeant 
Lena Olin ....  Marta 
Charles Brauer ....  Schmidthuber 
Venco Kapural ....  Rotha 
 Josipa Lisac ....  Singer 

Produced by 
Richard Berg   (executive producer) 
Richard Irving    (producer) 
Lamont Johnson   (co-producer) 
Phillip Levitan   (co-producer) 
Neal Nordlinger   (associate producer) 

Original music by 
Ernest Gold 

Cinematography by 
Charles Correll

Film Editing by 
Paul LaMastra 

Casting by 
Eleanor Cooke 

Production Design by 
Michael Stringer 

Art Direction by 
Stanislav Dobrina 

Sound Department 
Nicholas Eliopoulos ....  sound editor
sound effects editor 
John La Salandra ....  music editor 
Dan Wallin ....  score mixer 

Stunts 
Aldo Toncic ....  stunts 

Branko Knez ....  first assistant camera 
 Robert Wiesmann .... assistant camera 

 

 
 
 
Walpurgis Night, April 30 1944..
A celebration of Walpurgis Night with a bonfire at 
the Wallenberg Country Estate.
In Sweden they celebrate the start of spring at the 
Walpurgis Night.

 

 
 
At that night Raoul hasn't a nice behavour 
to the German guest Herr von Fremd.
Raoul imitates Hitler.

 

 
Raoul's mother apologizes her son.

 

 
 
At the end of June 1944 Raoul Wallenberg was
appointed  first secretary at the Swedish legation in 
Budapest with the mission to start a rescue operation 
for the Jews. 

He was very excited to go to Hungary, but first he 
wrote a memo to the Swedish foreign department. 
He was determined not to get caught in the protocol 
and paperwork bureaucracy of diplomacy. 

He demanded full authorization to deal with whom 
he wanted without having to contact the ambassador 
first. He also wanted to have the right to send 
diplomatic couriers beyond the usual channels.

 

 

 
 
A meeting with 'the Allies' Mr. Kalman, 
Iver Olssen and the president of the Jewish 
Community in Stockholm, Dr. Preiss.

 

 
 
Raoul gradued with top grades in Russian and 
drawing. After his army service he studied 
architecture at the University of Michigan in the USA. 
He worked in South Africa and in Haifa, Palestina. 
There he first met the Jews that had escaped Hitler's 
Germany. Their stories of the Nazi persecutions 
affected him deeply. Made many trips to Hungary.

 

 

 
His decision to go to Budapest was made...............

 

 
Raoul takes leave of his mother.

 

NEXT: WALLENBERG THE STORY PART THREE