Gösta Engzell

Evil thrives, as the saying goes, when good men do nothing. The Netflix drama The Swedish Connection, presenting a low-level bureaucrat as an unlikely hero, shows how inaction stems not from fear or hopelessness but a desire to land favorably wherever the wind blows. Based on true events, the film spotlights Gösta Engzell (Henrik Dorsin, Solisdan), head of the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s legal department, a timid man whose clever paperwork nevertheless helped save tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazi death camps of World War II.