- Drama, History, War
- 102 min
- PG-13
IMDb6.8
Swedish Foreign Ministry bureaucrat Gösta Engzell, overlooked during WWII, rescued thousands while turning supposedly neutral Sweden into a moral force. His efforts challenged the status quo and left a lasting humanitarian legacy.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20267/10
Not long after the start of WWII, the neutral Swedish relationship with the Third Reich was precarious and they were extremely conscious that risking their ire was fraught with danger. Meantime, though, across the border in newly occupied Norway the Jewish population were beginning to be ostracised and shipped off to the labour camps of the Fatherland. The Government are aware that some of these people may have legitimate Swedish citizenship, but given the prevailing winds blowing feel they cannot rock that boat too vigorously - so they pass the buck down their administrative food chain onto the head of the their legal affairs team in the Foreign Office. Gösta Engzell (Henrik Dorsin) is your archetypal civil servant whom his bosses hope will just go through the motions, but as information reaches him of more and more atrocities, he decides that there might be a way to issues visas to many at risk of persecution. Initially he limits the activities of his not all entirely convinced staff to specialist cases - like a pair of twin boys; but gradually he expands this operation until it begins to annoy the Nazi henchman Adolf Eichmann (Joshua Seelenbinder) and so becomes an issue for his
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Cast
- Henrik DorsinGösta Engzell
- Sissela BennRut Vogl
- Jonas KarlssonStaffan Söderström
- Johan GlansGöran Von Otter
- Olle JanssonChristian Günther
- Oscar TöringeNils Erik Eklund
- Loa FalkmanMarcus Ehrenpreis
- Marianne MörckStina Johansson
- Rakel BenérMaria Bondy
- Figge NorlingClaes Westring
Crew
- Thérèse AhlbeckDirector
- Marcus OlssonDirector
- Marcus OlssonWriter
- Thérèse AhlbeckWriter
- Kaspar KaaeOriginal Music Composer
- Michał LeszczyłowskiEditor
- Joakim PietrasEditor
- Julia GebauerProducer
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