El ángel de Budapest

El ángel de Budapest
starring Francis Lorenzo (left) and Manuel de Blas (right)
Genre	War, Drama, Romance
Based on	Un español frente al Holocausto by Diego Carcedo[1]
Written by	Angel Aranda Diego Carcedo
Directed by	Luis Oliveros
Starring	see Cast below
Country of origin	Spain Hungary
Original language(s)	Spanish
Production
Producer(s)	Eduardo Campoy (executive) José Manuel Lorenzo (executive) István Major (co-producer)
Cinematography	Nyika Jancsó [2]
Running time	120 minutes[2]
Production company(s)	Filmteam,[2] Boomerang TV[1]
Budget	2 million €[2]
Release
Original network	TVE [1]
Original release	January 1, 2011

El ángel de Budapest (Angel of Budapest) is a Spanish 2011 television World War II-Holocaust miniseries (compiled to a television movie in various countries) based on the book Un español frente al Holocausto ("A Spaniard against the Holocaust")^[1] written by journalist and radio executive director Diego Carcedo. The executive producers are José Manuel Lorenzo, Eduardo Campoy and István Major, the first two had collaborated on the spiritual film Sin noticias de Dios (2001). The film was shot in between November 9, 2010 to December 23, 2010 in Budapest, Hungary.^[1][2]

Plot

The plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II. Operating until early 1944 in Budapest, he helped to save the lives of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. He issued them protective papers and lodged them in Spanish safe houses, covered by the embassy's sovereignty. At that time, the Hungarian government was persecuting and deporting Jews to Nazi death camps.

A romantic storyline follows the lovelife of Antal, a Hungarian Jew who falls in love with the daughter of an Arrow Cross official of the Fascist government. Antal slowly turns to the resistance movement to save the couple.^[2]

Cast

• Anna Allen as Adela Quijano
• Tamás Lengyel as Lajos
• George Mendel as Danielson
• Manuel de Blas as Miguel Ángel Muguiro
• Ana Fernández as Sra. Tourné
• Francis Lorenzo as Ángel Sanz Briz
• Aldo Sebastianelli as Giorgio Perlasca
• Tamás Szabó Kimmel as Antal
• Iván Fenyő as Raoul Wallenberg
• Áron Őze as Adolf Eichmann
• László Agárdi as Miklós Horthy
• Kata Gáspár
• Sára Herrer
• Athina Papadimitriu
• Tamás Balikó
• János Bán
• László Baranyi
• László Áron

^{[1] [2] [3]}

Nominations

• Nominated - Magnolia Award for Best Television Film or Miniseries, 18th Shanghai Television Festival (2012)

References

1. "Budapesten forgat filmet Luis Oliveros spanyol filmrendező" [Luis Oliveros is directing in Budapest]. FILMHU-CSOPORT (in Hungarian). Budapest, Hungary: film.hu Kft. 2010-11-08. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
2. Gábor Apats (2010-12-23). "Kétmillió euróért, spanyolokkal forgatták A budapesti angyalt" [The Angel of Budapest was shot by Spanish for two million euros]. origo.hu (in Hungarian). Budapest, Hungary: Magyar Telekom. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
3. Réka Alíz Francisck (2010-12-09). "Budapest angyala" [Budapest angel]. bestofbudapest.com (in Hungarian). Budapest, Hungary: Duax Kft. Retrieved 2011-02-26.

External links

• El ángel de Budapest at the Internet Movie Database