The Angel of Budapest
El ángel de 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 Spanish against the Holocaust) 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 plot focuses on Ángel Sanz Briz, a Spanish ambassador in Hungary during World War II who helped to save the lives of thousands of jews from the Holocaust by lodging them in Spanisn safe houses in Budapest. There`s also a romantic storyline following the lovelife of Antal a Jew who falls in love with the daughter of an Arrow Cross official. He slowly turns to the resistance movement to save themselves.
Starring
Francis Lorenzo, Ana Fernández, János Bán
Director
Luis Oliveros