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Perlasca - Un eroe italiano

Perlasca - Un eroe italiano

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  • Italy,
  • France,
  • Sweden,
  • Hungary
  • 2002

Director Alberto Negrin
Cast Luca Zingaretti, Jérôme Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano, Marco Bonini, Lorenzo Lavia
Genre Drama

It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation. When the Nazi occupied Hungary, in 1944, instead to leave (Italy had already surrendered to the Allies) he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing name into Jorge Perlasca. He starts working as a diplomat here. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, is removed, Perlasca immediately substitutes him, like if he was officially appointed from Spanish authorities... Written by 1felco

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75

New York Post by Russell Scott Smith

There are no end of tear-jerking moments in Perlasca, a well-made and heart-rending Italian "Schindler's List."

70

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Negrin's film is a well-deserved tribute to a principled man who dared to act when principles no longer counted for anything.

63

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Zingaretti does a fine job shading a character that is written as an unalloyed saint.

60

Variety by Ronnie Scheib

Confusing lack of historical set-up considerably dims the potential luster of a great true story: Helmer Alberto Negrin relies instead on competently rendered but cliche-ridden melodrama of nasty Nazis and suffering Jews.

60

Village Voice

More courageous than Spielberg in its depiction of Nazi brutality, Perlasca occasionally feels like the made-for-Italian-TV film that it is.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Unfortunately, this feature, originally made for Italian television, doesn't quite do justice to its stirring subject.

40

The New York Times by Anita Gates

Giorgio Perlasca, who has been compared to Oskar Schindler, deserves better than this Italian television film.