According to Nina Lagergren, Raoul's sister, Raoul had become increasingly frustrated over not being able to do anything about the unbearable scenes he had been witnessing. In the winter if 1942 the two spent an evening at a private film show put on by the British embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, where Pimpernel Smith was playing; she claimed "on the way home he told me that was just the kind of thing he would like to do." Two years later Wallenberg carried out just the same exploits as his role-model on a rescue mission in Budapest.
Anikó Gruiz's debut.
Stellan Skarsgård (Raoul Wallenberg) & Jesper Christensen (Officer vid Watteauplatsen) also worked together on Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) & Melancholia (2011) together.