The Rescuers

About The Film

A Holocaust historian and anti-genocide activist search the past for solutions to current ethnic persecutions in THE RESCUERS. Globetrotting across 15 countries, Sir Martin Gilbert and Rwandan native Stephanie Nyombayire meet with survivors and descendants of diplomats who interceded to save Jews from Nazi death camps. Combining fascinating interviews, archival footage and dramatic reenactments, Emmy-winning filmmaker Michael King presents such well-documented cases as the Swedish businessman who saved 120,000 Budapest Jews, and the more obscure acts of a Japanese attaché, a German Nazi Party member, and British royalty as relayed in a story by Prince Charles. Having lost family in the Rwandan genocide, Nyombayire faces painful truths about her country, and seeks an end to ongoing massacres in Darfur and elsewhere. Palm Springs International Film Festival Best of the Fest, and Palm Beach and Beloit International Film Festivals Best Documentary.