Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
- TV Show
- 2002-01-28
- IT
- Ended
- 2h 37m
- IT
- Drama - War & Politics
Production
Palomar, Rai Fiction, Focus Film, Hamster Productions, France 2, SVT
Storyline
The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
